IChurch · listed 1967Church of St LaurencePhoto: John Salmon · CC BY-SA 2.0
Church of St Laurence · Photo: John Salmon · CC BY-SA 2.0B+History Grade
History of Blackmore · Historic England
30 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Blackmore’s built-up area, 257 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 29 of Blackmore’s listed buildings. 14% of its homes were built before 1919. Blackmore grades B+ for history.
Listed buildings
30
257 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
14%
typical UK town 15%
The map
Where Blackmore’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade I
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
30 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I0 Grade II*29 Grade II
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.
Grade I
The Grade I listed building in Blackmore
Buildings of exceptional interest, about 2.5% of all listed buildings. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
What’s protected
Most of Blackmore’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas20
Churches, chapels & priories4
Public & civic buildings2
Walls, gates & bridges2
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
Inns, shops & warehouses1
20 entries (67%) are houses, terraces and villas. 4 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings.
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.
Grade II
29 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 29 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Blackmore Memorial CrossChurch Street CottageDadd's Village StoresElm FarmhouseGanders HallHareton HouseHope CottageHorselocks Cottage the CottageJericho CottageJericho PrioryK6 Telephone Kiosk Adjacent to Post OfficeLaurencesLittle JerichoLittle JordanLundishesRowfeysShaw CottageShaw HouseStable Building and Coachmans Cottage 45 Metres North of Jericho PriorySwan HouseThe BargeThe Bull InnThe Old Manor House with Attached Railings and GateThe WoodbinesThree WaysTrees Cottage Walnut Tree CottageWall from North East Corner of Church of St Laurence to Gateway at South West Corner of JerichoWells Farmhouse2, Church Street
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 23% of Blackmore
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Blackmore 19758 ha
8 hain conservation areas, of 36 ha inside the built-up area.
24 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.
How the list grew
More than half of Blackmore’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1976
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1976 · 17
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The first 2 entries were listed in 1952. 17 came in 1976, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.
History Grade
Blackmore grades B+ for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (32 points, 274 per 10,000 residents)More than 77% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (14%)More than 41% of UK towns
Two measures, each ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, with protected heritage counting twice as much as the age of homes. Protected heritage counts each listed building by its grade (Grade I three points, II* two, II one), each scheduled monument and battlefield two, and each registered park or garden by its grade; it is ranked both per 10,000 residents and as a total, so a village with one fine church doesn’t outrank a historic city. The second measure is the share of homes built before 1919, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records. History is a character grade: it describes the town and isn’t part of the overall grade.
Towns its size
Blackmore has the 90th most Grade I buildings of 2,003 towns its size
Places of 1,000–2,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Blackmore1
#414 of 2,003for listed buildings per resident (257 per 10,000). Aberaeron, Beaumaris and Burford lead.
89 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Blackmore
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blackmore | 1,167 | 30 | 1 | B+ |
| Doddinghurst | 4,067 | 17 | 1 | C |
| Kelvedon Hatch | 2,493 | 11 | 0 | B− |
| Ingatestone | 5,411 | 54 | 1 | B+ |
| Chipping Ongar | 3,922 | 82 | 1 | A− |
| Shelley | 2,405 | 3 | 0 | D |
| Brentwood | 55,339 | 114 | 0 | B− |
| Writtle | 4,703 | 44 | 1 | B+ |
In brief
Blackmore in brief
Per resident, Blackmore has more listed heritage than 77% of UK towns. All told, the list holds 30 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. Only 89 of the 2,003 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1975.
Most entries on the list, 67%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1976, when 17 of the 30 went on the list. The rest is about typical: 14% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.
Questions about Blackmore’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Blackmore?
Historic England lists 30 buildings inside Blackmore’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 29 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Blackmore?
One: Church of St Laurence.
How many conservation areas are there in Blackmore?
1, covering about 8 hectares of the town. The largest is Blackmore.
When were Blackmore’s buildings listed?
The first in 1952; the most, 17, in 1976.
How old are the homes in Blackmore?
14% of homes were built before 1919 and 22% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
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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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