197 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade I

Parish Church of St Peter Ad VinculaGrade I listedThe Grange BarnGrade I listedFoundry HouseGrade II listedLong BridgeGrade II listedClock House and Clock TowerGrade II listed+20See all photos

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c. 1940

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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.

West Street20 listed

Church Street19 listed · 1 II*

East Street13 listed · 2 II*

Stoneham Street10 listed

Market Hill5 listed · 1 II*

Queen Street5 listed · 1 II*

Bridge Street3 listed

Market End3 listed

Of the 197 entries, 84 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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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 26 entries were listed in 1953, 1 of the 3 Grade I buildings among them. 98 came in 1966. Only 2 have 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.

25% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 15% 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 (15 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Few towns are as rich in listed heritage as Coggeshall: per resident it has more than 96% of UK towns. In all there are 197 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade I, including St Peter ad Vincula. Its housing is old: 26% of homes date from before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. Only 24 of the 1,083 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings.

On West Street alone there are 20 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1968. Of the whole list, 83% are houses, terraces and villas. The rest is about typical: William Unwin (1838) and John Rogers (1630) were born here before 1900.