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History of High Roding · Historic England

34 listed buildings

Historic England counts them inside High Roding’s built-up area, 585 for every 10,000 residents. Every listed building in High Roding is Grade II. 30% of its homes were built before 1919.

Listed buildings
34
585 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
30%
typical UK town 15%
The map

Where High Roding’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.

34 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I0 Grade II*34 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.

What’s protected

Most of High Roding’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas27
Inns, shops & warehouses3
Street furniture2
Public & civic buildings2

27 entries (79%) 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.

Grade II

34 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 34 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 37% of High Roding

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

High Roding 19778 ha
8 hain conservation areas, of 22 ha inside the built-up area.

33 of the 34 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 High Roding’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1983

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

1983 · 25
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 1 entry was listed in 1952. 25 came in 1983, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

Homes by age

30% of High Roding’s homes were built before 1919

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

28%
Before 1900
2.4%
1900–18
3.2%
1919–29
1.2%
1930s
8.8%
1945–54
8.8%
1955–64
6.8%
1965–72
4.4%
1973–82
12%
1983–92
3.2%
1993–99
5.6%
2000–08
5.6%
2009–15
10%
2016–25
High RodingEngland & Wales

28% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1983–92, which added 12% 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 (3 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around High Roding

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
High Roding581340—
Great Dunmow10,3951992A−
Takeley and Little Canfield5,553290C+
Little Dunmow2,64400D−
Felsted1,233592A
Hatfield Heath1,789210B
Stebbing1,061861A+
Little Hallingbury1,434290A−
In brief

High Roding in brief

Old houses are part of High Roding’s character: 30% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 34 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1977. Of the whole list, 79% are houses, terraces and villas. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1983: 25 of 34.

Questions about High Roding’s history

How many listed buildings are there in High Roding?

Historic England lists 34 buildings inside High Roding’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 34 Grade II.

How many conservation areas are there in High Roding?

1, covering about 8 hectares of the town. The largest is High Roding.

When were High Roding’s buildings listed?

The first in 1952; the most, 25, in 1983.

How old are the homes in High Roding?

30% of homes were built before 1919 and 35% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

High Roding has no History Grade.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The National Heritage List for England is the official, up-to-date register of all nationally protected historic buildings and sites in England; check an entry on Historic England’s website before relying on it.

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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.