II*Church · listed 1959Church of St NicholasPhoto: Lynda Poulter · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: Colin Park · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
History of Tillingham · Historic England
31 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade II*
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Tillingham’s built-up area, 320 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 29 of Tillingham’s listed buildings. 34% of its homes were built before 1919.
Listed buildings
31
320 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
2
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
34%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Tillingham
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 Tillingham’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade II*
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
31 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I2 Grade II*29 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 II*
The 2 Grade II* listed buildings in Tillingham
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
II*House · listed 1986Stows FarmhousePhoto: Michael Garlick · CC BY-SA 2.0
What’s protected
Most of Tillingham’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas22
Inns, shops & warehouses5
Street furniture2
Churches, chapels & priories1
Public & civic buildings1
22 entries (71%) are houses, terraces and villas. 1 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
29 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 29 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Chancel MeadK6 Telephone KioskL Plan Outbuilding Range to South of the Cap and Feathers Public HouseLatchkey CottageLittle SavagesLittle SeasQuinneysRose Cottage and Attached Former Butchers ShopShop Formerly a Butchers Shop and Adjoining Number 19 to the NorthStow CottageThe Cap and Feathers Public HouseThe Fox and HoundsThe ManseThe Olde HouseTillingham Post Office and HouseVillage Pump on Pavement at South East Corner of Garden at Number 1Village Pump, On Green Approximately 30 Metres West of Fox and Hounds Public House1, The Square1-5, South Street12, South Street13, North Street16, 17 and 18, The Square2, The Square25, North Street3, Vicarage Lane52 and 54, South Street7 and 9, South Street7, The Square9, The Square
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 42% of Tillingham
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Tillingham 196916 ha
16 hain conservation areas, of 38 ha inside the built-up area.
30 of the 31 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 Tillingham’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1986
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1986 · 20
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The first 3 entries were listed in 1959. 20 came in 1986, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Homes by age
34% of Tillingham’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
31%
Before 1900
2.9%
1900–18
1.9%
1919–29
5.1%
1930s
5.1%
1945–54
6.1%
1955–64
12%
1965–72
13%
1973–82
6.1%
1983–92
1.9%
1993–99
6.1%
2000–08
4.1%
2009–15
4.1%
2016–25
TillinghamEngland & Wales
31% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1973–82, which added 13% 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 (4 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Tillingham
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tillingham | 968 | 31 | 0 | — |
| Ramsey Island | 1,139 | 0 | 0 | D− |
| Southminster | 4,548 | 20 | 0 | B− |
| Tollesbury | 2,811 | 29 | 0 | A− |
| Mayland | 3,740 | 1 | 0 | D− |
| Burnham-on-Crouch | 7,806 | 41 | 0 | B+ |
| West Mersea | 7,071 | 31 | 1 | B− |
| Latchingdon | 1,140 | 5 | 0 | C− |
In brief
Tillingham in brief
More of Tillingham’s homes are old than in most places: 34% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 31 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1969. Most entries on the list, 71%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1986, when 20 of the 31 went on the list.
Questions about Tillingham’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Tillingham?
Historic England lists 31 buildings inside Tillingham’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 2 Grade II* and 29 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Tillingham?
1, covering about 16 hectares of the town. The largest is Tillingham.
When were Tillingham’s buildings listed?
The first in 1959; the most, 20, in 1986.
How old are the homes in Tillingham?
34% of homes were built before 1919 and 41% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Tillingham has no History Grade.
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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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