Photo: R J Noble · CC BY-SA 2.030 listed buildings
Historic England counts them inside Ashdon’s built-up area, 1,235 for every 10,000 residents. Every listed building in Ashdon is Grade II. 37% of its homes were built before 1919.
Where Ashdon’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
Historic England lists buildings in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest (about 2.5% of all listed buildings), Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest (about 5.8%), and Grade II for buildings of special interest (about 91.7%). Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.
Every entry on the National Heritage List for England whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings.
Most of Ashdon’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
23 entries (77%) are houses, terraces and villas. 1 are churches, chapels and priories.
Buildings are sorted by words in each entry’s name (church, gate, inn, memorial…): the list’s open data has no building type. An entry named only by its address counts as a house.
30 Grade II listed buildings
Most listed buildings are in this grade, which covers buildings of special interest. Open any building to read its official list entry.
All 30 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
1 conservation area covers 23% of Ashdon
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
22 of the 30 listed buildings stand in one.
Historic England’s conservation areas layer, supplied by councils (incomplete in places, so a page fact, never graded). Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.
More than half of Ashdon’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1980
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
The first 1 entry was listed in 1951. 26 came in 1980, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.
37% of Ashdon’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
36% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 13% of today’s homes.
Valuation Office Agency, council tax stock of properties by build period, 31 March 2025, for the neighbourhoods (LSOAs) that make up the town, split by where their residents live. Homes with no recorded build period (1 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Listed buildings in the places around Ashdon
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashdon | 243 | 30 | 0 | — |
| Linton | 4,452 | 116 | 1 | A− |
| Saffron Walden | 16,609 | 321 | 6 | A |
| Great Chesterford | 1,775 | 68 | 1 | A |
| Balsham | 1,625 | 31 | 1 | A− |
| Haverhill | 26,704 | 34 | 0 | C |
| Steeple Bumpstead | 1,376 | 26 | 1 | A |
| Newport | 2,945 | 78 | 1 | A− |
Ashdon in brief
Old houses are part of Ashdon’s character: 37% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 30 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1976. Most entries on the list, 77%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1980, when 26 of the 30 went on the list.
Questions about Ashdon’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Ashdon?
Historic England lists 30 buildings inside Ashdon’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 30 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Ashdon?
1, covering about 6 hectares of the town. The largest is Ashdon.
When were Ashdon’s buildings listed?
The first in 1951; the most, 26, in 1980.
How old are the homes in Ashdon?
37% of homes were built before 1919 and 42% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Ashdon has no History Grade.
© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The National Heritage List for England is the official, up-to-date register of all nationally protected historic buildings and sites in England; check an entry on Historic England’s website before relying on it.
Sources: Historic England, National Heritage List for England (listed buildings, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, battlefields, World Heritage Sites), October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only · Historic England conservation areas (supplied by local planning authorities; October 2026). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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