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History of Broughton · Historic England

74 listed buildings, 6 of them Grade II*

On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Broughton’s built-up area, 1,074 for every 10,000 residents. 68 of Broughton’s listed buildings are Grade II. 42% of its homes were built before 1919.

Listed buildings
74
1,074 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
6
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
42%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures

Landmarks of Broughton

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 Broughton’s history is

Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.

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 6 Grade II* listed buildings in Broughton

Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. 2 are photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

What’s protected

Most of Broughton’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas55
Churches, chapels & priories6
Walls, gates & bridges6
Inns, shops & warehouses5
Public & civic buildings2

55 entries (74%) are houses, terraces and villas. 6 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

68 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 68 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Barn 15 Metres West of Hyde FarmhouseBarn 30 Metres South of Manor FarmhouseBarn 40 Metres North West of Old Church FarmhouseBarn and Attached Office 10 Metres North of Manor FarmhouseBarn and Cartshed 10 Metres South West of Mill HouseBarn at Rear of Old ThatchBeehive Cottage Kents CloseBourne HouseBrewersBridge CottageBrigge HouseBroughton Mill and Mill CottageButler CottageCartsheds 40 Metres South West of Manor FarmhouseChesnut CottageClifton Cottage, Glin Cottage (And Part of Grannon)Cob Wall to Rear of Cob Cottage and Sun Cottage and on High StreetDennettsDixon HouseDowse Cottage and Dowse RoomDriscolls CottageEversfieldFords FarmhouseGarden Wall 100 Metres South West of Manor FarmhouseGardeners CottageGranary 10 Metres South West of Manor FarmhouseGranary at Rear of the Old ThatchesGroup of 3 Headstones to Morgan Family, Immediately South of Tower of St Mary's ChurchGroup of 8 Headstones to Doswell and Courtney Families 12 Metres South West of Porch of St Mary's ChurchHann's Cottage Linden Cottage the Old Malt HouseHyde FarmhouseKnoll HouseManor Farm HouseMeadow CottageMeadowbrookMeadowsweetNorth End CottageOld Church FarmhouseOld Market HouseOld TimbersQuorn CottageRectory Lane CottageRookery CottageSanford HouseSilverton CottageStables and Wall 5 Metres South West of the GreyhoundStaddle Barn and Mill 25 Metres North West of Manor FarmhouseStore in Roadside Garden Wall 20 Metres South of the Old RectoryThe CloseThe CottageThe Greyhound InnThe Old BakehouseThe Old Forge and the Old PloughThe Old ManseThe Old ThatchThe Square and Yew HouseThe Tally Ho Public HouseThe ThatchVillage WellWalls to Churchyard West of St Marks ChurchWarren CottageWoodsleeWyncourt HouseYew Tree Cottage12, High Street2 Tombchests and 2 Headstones to Hattatt Family South West of South Aisle of St Mary's Church2 Tombchests to Steele Family 12 Metres South of Chancel of St Mary's Church28 and 29, High Street
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 34% of Broughton

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

Broughton 197127 ha
27 hain conservation areas, of 79 ha inside the built-up area.

72 of the 74 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 Broughton’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1986

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

1986 · 541957 · 20
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 20 entries were listed in 1957. 54 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

42% of Broughton’s homes were built before 1919

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

38%
Before 1900
3.9%
1900–18
2.7%
1919–29
3.9%
1930s
7.9%
1945–54
6.7%
1955–64
7.9%
1965–72
5.2%
1973–82
5.2%
1983–92
2.7%
1993–99
3.9%
2000–08
1.2%
2009–15
11%
2016–25
BroughtonEngland & Wales

38% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2016–25, which added 11% 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 (8 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Born here

3 notable people born in Broughton before 1900

Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.

Anne Steele
Sampson Tubb
Thomas Fox
170017501800185019001950
TF
Thomas Fox1849–1916 · English cricketer (1849-1916)
AS
Anne Steele1716–1778 · English hymn writer, essayist
ST
Sampson Tubb1840–1891 · English cricketer (1840-1891)

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

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Broughton

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Broughton689740—
King's Somborne1,206540A
Middle Winterslow1,56350C+
Anna Valley and Upper Clatford1,557240B+
Romsey19,9232013B+
Whaddon2,283130B−
West Wellow1,584170B−
Andover48,484891C+
In brief

Broughton in brief

More of Broughton’s homes are old than in most places: 42% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 74 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1971.

Most entries on the list, 74%, are houses, terraces and villas. Thomas Fox (1849), Anne Steele (1716) and Sampson Tubb (1840) were all born here before 1900. The big year was 1986, when 54 of the 74 went on the list.

Questions about Broughton’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Broughton?

Historic England lists 74 buildings inside Broughton’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 6 Grade II* and 68 Grade II.

How many conservation areas are there in Broughton?

1, covering about 27 hectares of the town. The largest is Broughton.

When were Broughton’s buildings listed?

The first in 1957; the most, 54, in 1986.

Who was born in Broughton?

Among people born before 1900: Thomas Fox (1849), Anne Steele (1716) and Sampson Tubb (1840).

How old are the homes in Broughton?

42% of homes were built before 1919 and 49% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Broughton 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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