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History of Manningtree · Historic England

87 listed buildings

Historic England counts them inside Manningtree’s built-up area, 519 for every 10,000 residents. All of Manningtree’s listed buildings are Grade II. 31% of its homes were built before 1919. Manningtree grades A+ for history.

11on South Street

Listed buildings

519 per 10,000 residents

Grade I

exceptional interest

Grade II*

more than special interest

Scheduled monuments

nationally important sites

Homes built before 1919

31%

typical UK town 15%

Through time

Manningtree from 1909 to 1923

2 old photos and postcards, in date order. All public domain, made before 1950.

EdwardianRP Postcard - High St, Manningtree, Tendring, Essex. 1909Photo: Mark Crombie · Public domain

Between the warsPOSTCARD ESSEX - MANNINGTREE - SOUTH HILL - ANIMATED SCENE - RP - CIRCA 1923Photo: Mark Crombie · Public domain

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

The map

Where Manningtree’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.

87 listed buildings by grade

0 Grade I0 Grade II*87 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.

Historic streets

South Street has the most listed buildings

Streets by the listed entries with an address on them. One entry can be a whole terrace, so long rows count once.

South Street11 listed

High Street7 listed

Brook Street5 listed

Of the 87 entries, 28 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

What’s protected

Most of Manningtree’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas65

Inns, shops & warehouses8

Public & civic buildings6

Churches, chapels & priories3

Street furniture3

Walls, gates & bridges2

65 entries (75%) are houses, terraces and villas. 3 are churches, chapels and priories.

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

87 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 87 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z

Abbey National Building Society Cyril Cox, Solicitors Aldis Fashions Foster Prior, Estate Agents le Fleur Brantham House and Railings Attached to Front Steps Calver and Arnold, Hardware National Travel World Church House Cooperative Pharmacy Dry Cleaning Centre Krystyna Numbers 38, 40 and 42 Including Church Wall to Left (East)Corner Block, North Return to Stour Street Harwich Radio and Cycle Supplies the Dragon House Chinese Restaurant County Library Cumberland House Dorset House English House Entrance Gate and Front Railings to Dorset House Forge Cottage Forge Studios Goodmans Restaurant Peerage Carpets H Piper and S Priom Opthalmic Opticians Manningtree Jewellers Hammonds Shoes Harley Cottage Jasmine House Hill House House Attached to North East of Number 59 Independants Chapel to Rear (West) of Number 48 (At One Time a British Legion Hall)James Newsagents K6 Telephone Kiosk (Adjoining Post Office)Kiln at East End of Maltings Adjacent to North Street Manningtree Gallery Og Thorpe and Son, Butchers Masonic Hall Methodist Church Methodist Church Hall Milepost Mistley Mills Pair of Maltings and Adjoining Kilns at National Grid Reference TM109318 Mowbray Cottage National Westminster Bank and Return to Number 2 Brook Street Number 48 and Attached Forecourt Railings Number 7 with Return to High Street Outbuilding at Rear of Number 42 High Street Fronting Stour Street Park Manse Pollyanna Pump Approximately 1 1/2 Metres to Rear (South East) of Forge Cottage Quay Court Yard R Gwinnel and Sons, Funeral Directors Robert Clubb and Sons the Special Touch Regent Cottage Regent House Return to Numbers 1 and 2 Stour Street Russell House St Faiths Stour Books Taylor and Partners Estate Agents Corner Shop, South Return to Stour Street Taylor and Partners Estate Agents Tiny Tots The Crown Public House Including Extension and Carriageway to Right The Gardens The Hollies The Lodge The Old Coffee House The Red Lion Public House The Surgery The White Hart Wisteria House Town and Country Building Society Yeates and Company Estate Agents Townsends Trustee Savings Bank Yew Tree Cottage 1, The Walls 10 and 12, South Street 17, Regent Street 17, South Street 2 and 3, English Terrace 2-8, York Street 23,25 and 27, South Street 29, South Street 3 and 4, The Walls 30,32 and 34, Brook Street 31, South Street 33, South Street 36 and 38, Brook Street 37, South Street 40, Brook Street 45, 47 and 51, Brook Street 46, High Street 48, High Street 49, High Street 5, High Street 52, South Street 57, High Street 59, South Street 59-65, High Street 65, 67 and 69, South Street 69, High Street 7, Brook Street 71, 73 and 75, South Street

Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 88% of Manningtree

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

Manningtree and Mistley 196935 ha

35 hain conservation areas, of 40 ha inside the built-up area.

87 of the 87 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 Manningtree’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1987

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

1987 · 511966 · 7

19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 5 entries were listed in 1950. 51 came in 1987, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

History Grade

Manningtree grades A+ for history

Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.

Protected heritage, for its size and in all (87 points, 519 per 10,000 residents)More than 91% of UK towns

Homes built before 1919 (31%)More than 85% of 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.

Homes by age

31% of Manningtree’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

4.4%

1900–18

2.5%

1919–29

2.7%

1930s

1.9%

1945–54

0.6%

1955–64

1.5%

1965–72

9.4%

1973–82

12%

1983–92

10%

1993–99

21%

2000–08

0.2%

2009–15

7.2%

2016–25

ManningtreeEngland & Wales

26% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2000–08, which added 21% 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 (10 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Manningtree

Town	People	Listed	Grade I	History
Manningtree	1,676	87	0	A⁺
Lawford	4,488	5	0	D
Mistley	1,827	33	2	A⁻
Brantham	2,081	6	0	C
Bradfield	1,254	15	0	B⁺
East Bergholt	2,211	72	1	A
Ardleigh	1,042	18	0	B⁺
Capel St Mary	2,992	12	0	C

In brief

Manningtree in brief

For its size, Manningtree has more listed heritage than 91% of UK towns. In all there are 87 listed buildings. Of its homes, 31% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. On South Street alone there are 11 listed buildings.

A conservation area has protected part of it since 1969. Of the whole list, 75% are houses, terraces and villas. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1987: 51 of 87. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: John Watson (1850) was born here before 1900.

Questions about Manningtree’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Manningtree?

Historic England lists 87 buildings inside Manningtree’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 87 Grade II.

Which street in Manningtree has the most listed buildings?

South Street (11), High Street (7) and Brook Street (5) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.

How many conservation areas are there in Manningtree?

1, covering about 35 hectares of the town. The largest is Manningtree and Mistley.

When were Manningtree’s buildings listed?

The first in 1950; the most, 51, in 1987.

Are there old photos of Manningtree?

Yes: 2 public-domain photos and postcards from 1909 to 1923, all on this page.

How old are the homes in Manningtree?

31% of homes were built before 1919 and 36% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

© 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.

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