Church of the Holy Cross · Photo: Clem Rutter, Rochester Kent · CC BY 2.5

History of Avening · Historic England

Avening: 46% of homes built before 1919

The typical town has 15%: Avening has 3 times the share. Historic England lists 31 buildings inside Avening’s built-up area, 294 for every 10,000 residents. Avening grades A for history.

1Grade I

Listed buildings

294 per 10,000 residents

Grade I

exceptional interest

Grade II*

more than special interest

Scheduled monuments

nationally important sites

Homes built before 1919

46%

typical UK town 15%

The map

Where Avening’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.

31 listed buildings by grade

1 Grade I0 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 I

The Grade I listed building in Avening

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 1954Church of the Holy CrossPhoto: Clem Rutter, Rochester Kent · CC BY 2.5

What’s protected

The largest group of Avening’s listed buildings is homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas13

Churches, chapels & priories10

Street furniture6

Walls, gates & bridges1

Inns, shops & warehouses1

13 entries (42%) 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

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

Avening House Barn at Church Farm, On West Side of Farmyard Barrett Memorial, About 21 Metres West of Porch in Churchyard of Church of the Holy Cross Brook House Cartshed with Granary over and Attached Cow Shelter Adjoining Church Farmhouse on West Church Farmhouse Glebe House Group of 3 Unidentified Memorials About 15 Metres North West of Porch in Churchyard of Church of the Holy Cross Hanslo House Heron's Mead Somerford House K6 Telephone Kiosk Mullions, Adjacent to Churchyard of Church of Holy Cross on West Side, And Garden Wall Old Quarries Rodways Cottage and Rodways Place Sandford House The Old Rectory Unidentified Memorial, About 12 Metres North West of Porch in the Churchyard of Church of Holy Cross Unidentified Memorial, About 15 Metres North West of Porch in Churchyard of Church of the Holy Cross Unidentified Memorial, About 16 Metres North West of Porch in Churchyard of Church of Holy Cross Unidentified Memorial, About 7 Metres South West of Doorway in Churchyard of Avening Baptist Chapel Water Pump, By the Old Garage at Bottom of Lane Water Pump, By the Shoe Box Water Pump, Halfway Along, On the Left Water Pump, In the Fork of the Side Road on the Left Water Pump, Located in the Fork at the Top of Lane Water Pump, Next to the Bell Inn 14, 16 and 18, Woodstock Lane 2 and 4, Rectory Lane 20, Woodstock Lane 54, High Street

Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 52% of Avening

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

Avening 198922 ha

22 hain conservation areas, of 42 ha inside the built-up area.

28 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 Avening’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1985

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

1985 · 181954 · 62003 · 6

19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 6 entries were listed in 1954, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 18 came in 1985, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

History Grade

Avening 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 (33 points, 313 per 10,000 residents)More than 79% of UK towns

Homes built before 1919 (46%)More than 97% 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

46% of Avening’s homes were built before 1919

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

39%

Before 1900

1900–18

2.2%

1919–29

3.4%

1930s

3.4%

1945–54

2.2%

1955–64

6.8%

1965–72

10%

1973–82

8.9%

1983–92

2.2%

1993–99

8.9%

2000–08

1.2%

2009–15

3.4%

2016–25

AveningEngland & Wales

39% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1973–82, which added 10% 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 (5 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Towns its size

Avening has the 84th most Grade I buildings of 2,079 towns its size

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

Dadford23

Avening1

#381 of 2,079for listed buildings per resident (294 per 10,000). Aberaeron, Beaumaris and Burford lead.

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

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Avening

Town	People	Listed	Grade I	History
Avening	1,054	31	1	A
Minchinhampton	3,412	110	1	A⁺
Tetbury	6,454	226	4	A
Nailsworth	5,657	136	1	A⁺
Brimscombe and Thrupp	2,187	34	0	A
Amberley	1,300	31	0	A
Chalford	6,665	113	0	A
Stroud	26,073	396	2	A

In brief

Avening in brief

Old houses are part of Avening’s character: 46% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 31 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. Per resident, it has more listed heritage than 79% of UK towns.

Only 83 of the 2,079 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1989. The big year was 1985, when 18 of the 31 went on the list.

Questions about Avening’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Avening?

Historic England lists 31 buildings inside Avening’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 30 Grade II.

What are the Grade I listed buildings in Avening?

One: Church of the Holy Cross.

How many conservation areas are there in Avening?

1, covering about 22 hectares of the town. The largest is Avening.

When were Avening’s buildings listed?

The first in 1954; the most, 18, in 1985.

How old are the homes in Avening?

46% of homes were built before 1919 and 52% 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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