50 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade II*

Church of St John the BaptistGrade II* listedWinchelsea HouseGrade II listedEpping Civic OfficesGrade II listedCock HotelGrade II listedGeorge and Dragon Inn Premises Occupied by Epping GoldsmithsGrade II listed+7See 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. 1905

1905

c. 1905

c. 1909

Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

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 11 entries were listed in 1949. 29 came in 1972, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. 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.

Henry Doubleday

Edward Doubleday

John Francis

Archdale Palmer

Harold Palmer

Orovida Camille Pissarro

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Henry Doubleday1808–1875 · English entomologist and ornithologist (1808-1875)

Edward Doubleday1810–1849 · English entomologist and ornithologist (1810 -1849)

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Orovida Camille Pissarro1893–1968 · British artist (1893-1968)

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Harold Palmer1890–1967 · British cricketer (1890-1967)

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John Francis1846–1891 · New Zealand cricketer

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Archdale Palmer1865–1950 · British tennis player (1865-1950)

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

The official list counts 50 listed buildings in Epping, including Church of St John the Baptist. High Street alone has 15 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 3 conservation areas, the first designated in 1969. Of the whole list, 84% are houses, terraces and villas.

Henry Doubleday (1808), Edward Doubleday (1810) and Orovida Camille Pissarro (1893) are among the 6 people born here before 1900. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1972: 29 of 50. Beyond that, like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and 14% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.