Cotswold airport at kemble from helicopter arp

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History of Kemble · Historic England

20 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade II*

Historic England counts them inside Kemble’s built-up area, 220 for every 10,000 residents. Of the listed buildings in Kemble, 19 are Grade II. 28% of its homes were built before 1919.

1Grade II*

Listed buildings

220 per 10,000 residents

Grade I

exceptional interest

Grade II*

more than special interest

Scheduled monuments

nationally important sites

Homes built before 1919

28%

typical UK town 15%

In pictures

Landmarks of Kemble

Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

Anglican Church of All SaintsGrade 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 Kemble’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.

20 listed buildings by grade

0 Grade I1 Grade II*19 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 Kemble

Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

Church · listed 1958Anglican Church of All SaintsPhoto: Peter Watkins · CC BY-SA 2.0

What’s protected

Most of Kemble’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas12

Churches, chapels & priories2

Walls, gates & bridges2

Public & civic buildings2

Inns, shops & warehouses1

Memorials, crosses & tombs1

12 entries (60%) 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

19 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 19 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z

Bank Cottage Barn 20 Metres North East of Number 128 Barn About 25 Metres to South East of Top Farmhouse Barn and Former Stable at the Pigeon House, To North East of House Barn at Home Farm Clayfurlong House Home Farmhouse Kemble House, gatepiers, boundary walls, outbuildings and garden features Kemble Station Kemble War Memorial Railway bridge approximately 110m south of Kemble Station The Pigeon House Two Adjoining Barns at Clayfurlong Farm Unidentified Monument, About 4 Metres North of North West Tower Buttress in Churchyard of Church of All Saints Water Tank on West Platform of Kemble Station 126 and 127, Old Vicarage Lane 134 and 135, West Lane 157-160, Church Road 4 and 5 Kemble Park, and entrance arch between

Conservation areas

2 conservation areas cover 44% of Kemble

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

Kemble 198120 ha

Kemble Station 19902 ha

22 hain conservation areas, of 50 ha inside the built-up area.

The first, Kemble, was designated in 1981; the newest, Kemble Station, in 1990. 18 of the 20 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 Kemble’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1986

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

1986 · 13

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The first 4 entries were listed in 1958. 13 came in 1986, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 3 have been added in the last 15 years.

Homes by age

28% of Kemble’s homes were built before 1919

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

27%

Before 1900

1900–18

4.2%

1919–29

3.2%

1930s

11%

1945–54

2.2%

1955–64

4.2%

1965–72

4.2%

1973–82

19%

1983–92

5.4%

1993–99

7.4%

2000–08

2009–15

12%

2016–25

KembleEngland & Wales

27% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1983–92, which added 19% 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.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Kemble

Town	People	Listed	Grade I	History
Kemble	908	20	0	—
Cirencester	17,715	326	3	A
South Cerney	3,998	56	1	B⁺
Ashton Keynes	1,425	56	1	A⁺
Stratton	2,558	19	0	C⁺
Tetbury	6,454	226	4	A
Avening	1,054	31	1	A
Malmesbury	7,184	318	6	A⁺

In brief

Kemble in brief

Old houses are part of Kemble’s character: 28% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 20 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1981. Of the whole list, 60% are houses, terraces and villas. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1986: 13 of 20.

Questions about Kemble’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Kemble?

Historic England lists 20 buildings inside Kemble’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 19 Grade II.

How many conservation areas are there in Kemble?

2, covering about 22 hectares of the town. The largest are Kemble and Kemble Station.

When were Kemble’s buildings listed?

The first in 1958; the most, 13, in 1986.

How old are the homes in Kemble?

28% of homes were built before 1919 and 35% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Kemble 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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