Parsonage Farmhouse · Photo: Roger Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0

History of Stebbing · Historic England

86 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Stebbing’s built-up area, 811 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 81 of Stebbing’s listed buildings. 30% of its homes were built before 1919. Stebbing grades A+ for history.

1Grade I 4Grade II*

Listed buildings

811 per 10,000 residents

Grade I

exceptional interest

Grade II*

more than special interest

Scheduled monuments

nationally important sites

Homes built before 1919

30%

typical UK town 15%

In pictures

Landmarks of Stebbing

Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

Church of St Mary the VirginGrade I listed

Parsonage FarmhouseGrade II* 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 Stebbing’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.

86 listed buildings by grade

1 Grade I4 Grade II*81 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 Stebbing

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 1967Church of St Mary the VirginPhoto: John Salmon · CC BY-SA 2.0

Grade II*

The 4 Grade II* listed buildings in Stebbing

Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. 1 is photographed.

House · listed 1952Parsonage FarmhousePhoto: Roger Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0

Memorials · listed 1967Stebbing Memorial Club

Inns & shops · listed 1967Stebbing Mill

House · listed 1952Tan Farmhouse

What’s protected

Most of Stebbing’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas59

Churches, chapels & priories10

Street furniture7

Inns, shops & warehouses6

Public & civic buildings2

Memorials, crosses & tombs2

59 entries (69%) are houses, terraces and villas. 10 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

81 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 81 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z

Anns Cottage Squirrels Apple Tree Cottage Archway Cottage Sharocks Bell House Ducketts Butchers Shop Sibley House Bent Marshalls House Next to Shepherds to the North and by Plant Hire Yard Bird in Hand Boyes Bran End Mill Bran End Mill House Butlers Cottage Capstones Church Farm Barn 20 Metres South West of House Church Farm Barn 20 Metres West of Farmhouse Church Farm Pump 5 Metres South of House Church Farm, Dovecote to 10 Metres South of House Church Farmhouse Church View Church View Hillside Clarence Cottage Cranford Daines Eleanor Cottage Dane House Eastern House End Cottage Fairview Fairview Pump to East of Cottage Freers Cottage Glebe House the Vicarage Hill House Hillcrest Hillcrest Barn 40 Metres North of House Hillcrest, Pump to Rear of House Hillside Maydean Honeysuckle Cottage Institute Villa Penn Cottage K6 Telephone Kiosk Kings Head Littles Livery Cottage Martin's Hall Mead Cottage Oak Cottage Meadowside Parsonage Farm Barn 20 Metres North East of Farmhouse Peartree Cottage Post Office and Stores Pump Cottage Red Lion Rose Cottage Rosemary Cottage Serenga Shepherds Shepherds Pump at Rear St Helens Stane Cottage Stebbing Mill House Stebbing War Memorial Stone Cottage Tan Cottage Tan Cottage Tan Farmhouse Pump to Rear of House Tanners Farmhouse The Chantry The Chase The Curiosity Shop The Green Man The Malt House The Old Manse The Post House The Stores Thisuldo Town Farmhouse Tudor Cottage Tweed Cottage Tye Cottage United Reformed Church Village Pump 5 Metres West of Pump Cottage Watch House White Barns White Hart White Hart Cottage Willow View 2 Tan Cottage Pump in Front Garden

Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 25% of Stebbing

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

Stebbing 197714 ha

14 hain conservation areas, of 54 ha inside the built-up area.

65 of the 86 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 Stebbing’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1984

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

1984 · 531967 · 22

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The first 6 entries were listed in 1952. 53 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

History Grade

Stebbing 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 (92 points, 867 per 10,000 residents)More than 92% of UK towns

Homes built before 1919 (30%)More than 84% 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

30% of Stebbing’s homes were built before 1919

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

29%

Before 1900

1.3%

1900–18

6.9%

1919–29

2.7%

1930s

8.3%

1945–54

5.6%

1955–64

11%

1965–72

8.3%

1973–82

1983–92

8.3%

1993–99

2.7%

2000–08

2.7%

2009–15

9.6%

2016–25

StebbingEngland & Wales

29% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 11% 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 (6 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Towns its size

Stebbing has the 86th most Grade I buildings of 2,075 towns its size

Places of 1,000–2,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.

Dadford23

Stebbing1

#39 of 2,075for listed buildings per resident (811 per 10,000). Aberaeron, Beaumaris and Burford lead.

85 have more. The typical town its size has 0.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Stebbing

Town	People	Listed	Grade I	History
Stebbing	1,061	86	1	A⁺
Little Dunmow	2,644	0	0	D⁻
Great Dunmow	10,395	199	2	A⁻
Felsted	1,233	59	2	A
Great Bardfield	1,372	75	1	A⁺
Rayne	2,169	51	1	A⁻
Thaxted	3,111	151	7	A
Takeley and Little Canfield	5,553	29	0	C⁺

In brief

Stebbing in brief

Few towns are as rich in listed heritage as Stebbing: per resident it has more than 92% of UK towns. All told, the list holds 86 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. Its housing is old: 30% of homes date from before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. Only 85 of the 2,075 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings.

A conservation area has protected part of it since 1977. Most entries on the list, 69%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1984, when 53 of the 86 went on the list.

Questions about Stebbing’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Stebbing?

Historic England lists 86 buildings inside Stebbing’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 4 Grade II* and 81 Grade II.

What are the Grade I listed buildings in Stebbing?

One: Church of St Mary the Virgin.

How many conservation areas are there in Stebbing?

1, covering about 14 hectares of the town. The largest is Stebbing.

When were Stebbing’s buildings listed?

The first in 1952; the most, 53, in 1984.

How old are the homes in Stebbing?

30% of homes were built before 1919 and 40% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

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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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