IChurch · listed 1967St Peter's ChurchOn the list as Church of St PeterPhoto: Robert Edwards · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: Peter S · CC BY-SA 2.0B+History Grade
History of Roydon · Historic England
36 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
Historic England counts them inside Roydon’s built-up area, 227 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 35 of Roydon’s listed buildings. 14% of its homes were built before 1919. Roydon grades B+ for history.
Listed buildings
36
227 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
14%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Roydon
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
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 Roydon’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade I
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
36 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I0 Grade II*35 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 Grade I listed building in Roydon
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.
What’s protected
Most of Roydon’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas26
Inns, shops & warehouses3
Churches, chapels & priories2
Walls, gates & bridges2
Public & civic buildings2
Street furniture1
26 entries (72%) are houses, terraces and villas. 2 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 1 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
35 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 35 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Barn at Newbarns FarmBothwaysCambridge HouseChurch HouseDower House BarnDowsetts HouseGates and Gatelodges to North Lodge, And South Lodge of Briggens House HotelGranary at Newbarns FarmGranary at Temple FarmhouseHouse Adjoining the Niche to the WestK6 Telephone KioskLightfootsLockupMead ViewNew Inn Public HouseNumber 1, Clarks CottagesOld Plough CottageOld Post OfficeOld VicarageRoydon StationSakinsStocksTemple FarmhouseThe Dower House Including Front Wall with RailingsThe ForgeThe NicheThe Old BakeryThe Old ForgeWhite Hart Public HouseWhite Horse Public HouseWhitegates1 and 3, High Street1-7 Allens Row118 and 120, High Street55 and 57, High Street
Conservation areas
2 conservation areas cover 17% of Roydon
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Roydon Village 19739 ha
Nazeing and South Roydon 19825 ha
14 hain conservation areas, of 83 ha inside the built-up area.
The first, Roydon Village, was designated in 1973; the newest, Nazeing and South Roydon, in 1982. 31 of the 36 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 Roydon’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1984
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1984 · 201967 · 5
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 5 entries were listed in 1967, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 20 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
History Grade
Roydon grades B+ for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (38 points, 239 per 10,000 residents)More than 79% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (14%)More than 41% 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.
Towns its size
Roydon has the 92nd most Grade I buildings of 1,699 towns its size
Places of 1,000–3,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Roydon1
#303 of 1,699for listed buildings per resident (227 per 10,000). Aberaeron, Beaumaris and Burford lead.
91 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Roydon
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roydon | 1,587 | 36 | 1 | B+ |
| Stanstead Abbotts | 3,754 | 49 | 0 | A− |
| Hoddesdon | 40,615 | 126 | 2 | B− |
| Lower Nazeing | 3,631 | 25 | 1 | B− |
| Harlow | 93,570 | 178 | 5 | C+ |
| Great Amwell | 1,017 | 42 | 0 | B+ |
| Hertford Heath | 2,830 | 36 | 0 | A− |
| Ware | 19,631 | 193 | 4 | A− |
In brief
Roydon in brief
Per resident, Roydon has more listed heritage than 79% of UK towns. All told, the list holds 36 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. Only 91 of the 1,699 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1973.
Most entries on the list, 72%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1984, when 20 of the 36 went on the list. The rest is about typical: Ralph H. Fowler (1889) was born here before 1900; and 14% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.
Questions about Roydon’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Roydon?
Historic England lists 36 buildings inside Roydon’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 35 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Roydon?
One: Church of St Peter.
How many conservation areas are there in Roydon?
2, covering about 14 hectares of the town. The largest are Roydon Village and Nazeing and South Roydon.
When were Roydon’s buildings listed?
The first in 1967; the most, 20, in 1984.
How old are the homes in Roydon?
14% of homes were built before 1919 and 27% 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.
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.