Parish Church of St John the Baptist · Photo: Oxyman · CC BY 2.5

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History of Finchingfield · Historic England

51 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade I

On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Finchingfield’s built-up area, 701 for every 10,000 residents. 48 of Finchingfield’s listed buildings are Grade II. 33% of its homes were built before 1919.

2Grade I 1Grade II*

Listed buildings

701 per 10,000 residents

Grade I

exceptional interest

Grade II*

more than special interest

Scheduled monuments

nationally important sites

Homes built before 1919

33%

typical UK town 15%

In pictures

Landmarks of Finchingfield

Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

The GuildhallGrade I listed

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.

The map

Where Finchingfield’s history is

Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.

Grade IGrade II*

Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.

51 listed buildings by grade

2 Grade I1 Grade II*48 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 2 Grade I listed buildings in Finchingfield

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.

Church · listed 1967Parish Church of St John the BaptistPhoto: Oxyman · CC BY 2.5

Public · listed 1967Finchingfield GuildhallOn the list as The GuildhallPhoto: Oxyman · CC BY 2.5

Grade II*

The Grade II* listed building in Finchingfield

Particularly important buildings of more than special interest.

House · listed 1967Springmede

What’s protected

Most of Finchingfield’s listed buildings are homes

Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.

Houses, terraces & villas41

Inns, shops & warehouses5

Public & civic buildings2

Churches, chapels & priories2

Walls, gates & bridges1

41 entries (80%) are houses, terraces and villas. 2 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 2 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

48 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 48 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z

Barn Approximately 50 Metres South West of Great Biggins Farmhouse Barn Approximately 85 Metres South West of Great Farmhouse Bits and Pieces Bosworths Tearooms and Finchingfield Antiques Centre Brick House Bridge House Brook Hall Brook House Byre Approximately 70 Metres West South West of Great Biggins Farmhouse Cabbaches Causeway Cottage Chestnut Villa Finchingfield House Former Finchingfield Congregational Church Great Biggins Farmhouse Hope Cottage Mill Barn Mill View and Hillcrest North House and The Picture Pot Number 2, Brook Cottage and Adjacent to Cottage to North Old Mill Cottage Paigles and the Cottage Prospect Cottage Prospect House Riverside Rose Cottage and Corner Cottage Rosemary Cottage Saxons Stowes and Mildmay Street Farmhouse and The Granary Thatchers and Harvest Cottage The Fox Inn The Manse The Old Parsonage The Old Smithy The Red Lion Inn The Windmill Town House Vine Cottage Willetts 1 and 2 Hillside 1 and 2 Primrose Cottages 1 and 2, Sunnyside 1 and 3, Duck End 2, Street Farm Barn 4, The Causeway 5, Duck End 5, Jasmine Cottage and 6, The Causeway

Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 63% of Finchingfield

Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.

Finchingfield 196923 ha

23 hain conservation areas, of 37 ha inside the built-up area.

51 of the 51 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 Finchingfield’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1967

The year each building now on the list was first listed.

1967 · 331985 · 11

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The first 4 entries were listed in 1953. 33 came in 1967. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

Homes by age

33% of Finchingfield’s homes were built before 1919

Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).

32%

Before 1900

1.3%

1900–18

1.3%

1919–29

1930s

5.3%

1945–54

29%

1955–64

1.3%

1965–72

5.3%

1973–82

1983–92

5.3%

1993–99

1.3%

2000–08

1.3%

2009–15

2016–25

FinchingfieldEngland & Wales

32% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, which added 29% 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 (5 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Born here

5 notable people born in Finchingfield before 1900

Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.

Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel

Edmund Blackett Owen

Evelyn Ruggles-Brise

Janie Terrero

Basil Totman

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Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel1585–1646 · English diplomat (1585-1646)

Janie Terrero1858–1944 · British suffragette

Evelyn Ruggles-Brise1857–1935 · British civil servant and prison reformer

Edmund Blackett Owen1847–1915 · English surgeon

Basil Totman1874–1953 · Cricketer (1874-1953)

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

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Finchingfield

Town	People	Listed	Grade I	History
Finchingfield	728	51	2	—
Great Bardfield	1,372	75	1	A⁺
Thaxted	3,111	151	7	A
Stebbing	1,061	86	1	A⁺
Steeple Bumpstead	1,376	26	1	A
Great Yeldham	1,824	28	1	B⁺
Sible Hedingham	4,261	83	0	A⁻
Castle Hedingham	1,045	105	1	A⁺

In brief

Finchingfield in brief

More of Finchingfield’s homes are old than in most places: 33% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 51 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade I. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1969.

Most entries on the list, 80%, are houses, terraces and villas. Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel (1585), Janie Terrero (1858) and Evelyn Ruggles-Brise (1857) are among the 5 people born here before 1900. The big year was 1967, when 33 of the 51 went on the list.

Questions about Finchingfield’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Finchingfield?

Historic England lists 51 buildings inside Finchingfield’s built-up area: 2 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 48 Grade II.

What are the Grade I listed buildings in Finchingfield?

2, including Parish Church of St John the Baptist and The Guildhall.

How many conservation areas are there in Finchingfield?

1, covering about 23 hectares of the town. The largest is Finchingfield.

When were Finchingfield’s buildings listed?

The first in 1953; the most, 33, in 1967.

Who was born in Finchingfield?

Among people born before 1900: Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel (1585), Janie Terrero (1858), Evelyn Ruggles-Brise (1857), Edmund Blackett Owen (1847) and Basil Totman (1874).

How old are the homes in Finchingfield?

33% of homes were built before 1919 and 38% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Finchingfield has no History Grade.

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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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