96 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Church of St NicolasGrade I listedSpread Eagle HotelGrade II* listedWhitehall CinemaGrade II listed61, Newland StreetGrade II listedWoolpack InnGrade II listed+3See all photos

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.

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

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. Neighbourhood dots: the population-weighted centre of each Census 2021 output area, coloured by its neighbourhood’s (LSOA’s) share of homes built before 1919 (Valuation Office Agency, March 2025).

Newland Street29 listed · 2 II*

Church Street6 listed

Chippinghill4 listed

Of the 96 entries, 46 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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.

The first 39 entries were listed in 1950, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 47 came in 1973, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

1 scheduled monument

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.

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.

2.7% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 23% 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 (0 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Stafford Allen

David Hawkes

William Henry Rodes Green

John Richard Robinson

Audley Coote

Samuel Hawkes

John Bawtree

John Stoneham

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John Richard Robinson1828–1903 · English journalist

JB

John Bawtree1873–1938 · Cricketer (1873-1938)

DH

David Hawkes1822–1858 · Recipient of the Victoria Cross

William Henry Rodes Green1823–1912 · British Indian Army officer

JS

John Stoneham1892–1950 · Association football player (1892-1950)

Stafford Allen1806–1889 · British industrialist, abolitionist and philanthropist (1806-1889)

AC

Audley Coote1839–1915 · (1839-1915) politician and concessionaire

SH

Samuel Hawkes1845–1937 · Tasmanian politician (1845-1937)

Everyone born in Witham → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

Witham has 96 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of St Nicolas. Only 87 of the 366 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. On Newland Street alone there are 29 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1968.

Most entries on the list, 76%, are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 8 people born here before 1900, the best known include John Richard Robinson (1828), John Bawtree (1873) and David Hawkes (1822). Its homes are mostly newer: 4% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has a scheduled monument.