House · listed 1985Great Ruffins
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History of Wickham Bishops · Historic England
31 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade II*
Historic England counts them inside Wickham Bishops’s built-up area, 161 for every 10,000 residents. Of the listed buildings in Wickham Bishops, 30 are Grade II. 11% of its homes were built before 1919. Wickham Bishops grades B for history.
Listed buildings
31
161 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
1 registered park or garden
Homes built before 1919
11%
typical UK town 15%
The map
Where Wickham Bishops’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade II*Park or garden
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
31 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I1 Grade II*30 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 Grade II* listed building in Wickham Bishops
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
What’s protected
Most of Wickham Bishops’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas24
Churches, chapels & priories2
Walls, gates & bridges2
Public & civic buildings2
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
24 entries (77%) are houses, terraces and villas. 2 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
30 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 30 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
AbbottsBakehouse in Front Garden of Cherry Tree CottageBarn Approximately 30 Metres South of the GrangeBeacon CottageBeaconsBraxted PlaceChapel Attached to Braxted PlaceCherry Tree CottageChurch of St BartholomewDooleysEntrance Gates Adjoining Road and Approximately 40 Metres North of Great RuffinsGreat Braxted and Wickham Bishops War MemorialGreen Man CottagesHeath HouseHigh HallHigh Hall CottageHill PlacePrimrose CottagesSt. Nicholas CottageThatched CottageThe ChequersThe Coach HouseThe GrangeThe Green ManThe MitreTrust CottageWall Enclosing Garden to Rear of Braxted Place QV4/161Well in Front Garden of Cherry Tree Cottage1 and 2 Beacon Cottages12 and 14 Oaklea
How the list grew
More than half of Wickham Bishops’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1985
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1985 · 23
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The first 1 entry was listed in 1953. 23 came in 1985, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.
Monuments & landscapes
Monuments, parks and gardens
Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.
1 registered park or garden
Garden of Great RuffinsGrade II
History Grade
Wickham Bishops 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 (33 points, 172 per 10,000 residents)More than 74% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (11%)More than 29% 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.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Wickham Bishops
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wickham Bishops | 1,923 | 31 | 0 | B |
| Great Totham | 2,773 | 15 | 0 | C+ |
| Witham | 27,395 | 96 | 1 | B− |
| Hatfield Peverel | 3,622 | 23 | 0 | B− |
| Maldon | 23,389 | 247 | 6 | A− |
| Tiptree | 9,302 | 20 | 0 | C |
| Kelvedon and Feering | 4,771 | 103 | 2 | A− |
| Tolleshunt Knights | 1,059 | 3 | 0 | C |
In brief
Wickham Bishops in brief
The official list counts 31 listed buildings in Wickham Bishops. Most entries on the list, 77%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1985, when 23 of the 31 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and 11% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.
Questions about Wickham Bishops’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Wickham Bishops?
Historic England lists 31 buildings inside Wickham Bishops’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 30 Grade II.
When were Wickham Bishops’s buildings listed?
The first in 1953; the most, 23, in 1985.
How old are the homes in Wickham Bishops?
11% of homes were built before 1919 and 22% 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. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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