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History of Langham · Historic England

21 listed buildings

Historic England counts them inside Langham’s built-up area, 268 for every 10,000 residents. Every listed building in Langham is Grade II. 27% of its homes were built before 1919.

Listed buildings
21
268 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
27%
typical UK town 15%
The map

Where Langham’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.

21 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I0 Grade II*21 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 Langham’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas19
Public & civic buildings2

19 entries (90%) 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

21 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 21 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
How the list grew

More than half of Langham’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1982

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

1982 · 19
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The first 1 entry was listed in 1976. 19 came in 1982, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

Homes by age

27% of Langham’s homes were built before 1919

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

26%
Before 1900
1.8%
1900–18
5.1%
1919–29
6.9%
1930s
5.1%
1945–54
10%
1955–64
8.7%
1965–72
8.7%
1973–82
8.7%
1983–92
6.9%
1993–99
5.1%
2000–08
1.8%
2009–15
5.1%
2016–25
LanghamEngland & Wales

26% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, which added 10% 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 (0 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Langham

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Langham783210—
Ardleigh1,042180B+
Great Horkesley2,232300B
East Bergholt2,211721A
Lawford4,48850D
Colchester130,25944313B+
West Bergholt3,175110C+
Elmstead Market1,767100C
In brief

Langham in brief

Old houses are part of Langham’s character: 27% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 21 listed buildings. Most entries on the list, 90%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1982, when 19 of the 21 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: Edith Pechey (1845) was born here before 1900.

Questions about Langham’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Langham?

Historic England lists 21 buildings inside Langham’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 21 Grade II.

When were Langham’s buildings listed?

The first in 1976; the most, 19, in 1982.

How old are the homes in Langham?

27% of homes were built before 1919 and 39% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Langham 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. 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.