The Crown Inn · Photo: Bikeboy · CC BY-SA 2.028 listed buildings
Historic England counts them inside Elsenham’s built-up area, 82 for every 10,000 residents. Every listed building in Elsenham is Grade II. 8.1% of its homes were built before 1919. Elsenham grades B− for history: #32 of 81 in Essex.
Elsenham in old photos
1 old photo or postcard, in date order. All public domain, made before 1950.
1935Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.
Where Elsenham’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 Elsenham’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
23 entries (82%) are houses, terraces and villas.
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.
28 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 28 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
More than half of Elsenham’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1980
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
The first 2 entries were listed in 1951. 20 came in 1980, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Elsenham grades B− for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all 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.
8.1% of Elsenham’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
7.1% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2016–25, which added 34% 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 (8 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Listed buildings in the places around Elsenham
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elsenham | 3,414 | 28 | 0 | B− |
| Henham | 1,046 | 58 | 1 | A |
| Stansted Mountfitchet | 8,629 | 109 | 0 | A |
| Takeley and Little Canfield | 5,553 | 29 | 0 | C+ |
| Bishop's Stortford | 40,916 | 108 | 1 | B− |
| Newport | 2,945 | 78 | 1 | A− |
| Thaxted | 3,111 | 151 | 7 | A |
| Little Hallingbury | 1,434 | 29 | 0 | A− |
Elsenham in brief
Elsenham has 28 listed buildings, including The Crown Inn. Most entries on the list, 82%, are houses, terraces and villas. Its homes are mostly newer: 8.1% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. The big year was 1980, when 20 of the 28 went on the list. Beyond that, per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns.
Questions about Elsenham’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Elsenham?
Historic England lists 28 buildings inside Elsenham’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 28 Grade II.
When were Elsenham’s buildings listed?
The first in 1951; the most, 20, in 1980.
Are there old photos of Elsenham?
Yes: 1 public-domain photo or postcard from 1935 to 1935, all on this page.
How old are the homes in Elsenham?
8.1% of homes were built before 1919 and 11% 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. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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