40 listed buildings, 5 of them Grade II*

Chigwell Grammar SchoolGrade II* listedParish Church of St Mary the VirginGrade II* listedGrange CourtGrade II* listedTen Mile CottageGrade II listedChigwell Golf ClubhouseGrade II listed+4See all photos

Photos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.

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c. 1918

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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. Neighbourhood dots: the population-weighted centre of each Census 2021 output area, coloured by its neighbourhood’s (LSOA’s) share of homes built before 1919 (Valuation Office Agency, March 2025).

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.

The first 13 entries were listed in 1954. 21 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

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.

4.9% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 23% 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 (20 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Eliab Harvey

John Watson

Edward Beadon Turner

George Robertson Turner

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John Watson1829–1919 · English recipient of the Victoria Cross (1829–1919)

Eliab Harvey1758–1830 · British Royal Navy admiral, politician, and art collector (1758-1830)

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Edward Beadon Turner1854–1931 · English physician and rugby union player

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George Robertson Turner1855–1941 · English surgeon and rugby union player (1855-1941)

Everyone born in Chigwell → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

Chigwell has 40 listed buildings, including Chigwell School. Its older streets lie in 3 conservation areas, the first designated in 1969. Of the whole list, 65% are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 4 people born here before 1900, the best known include John Watson (1829), Eliab Harvey (1758) and Edward Beadon Turner (1854).

Its homes are mostly newer: 5.7% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1984: 21 of 40. The rest is about typical: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; and per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns.