II*Church · listed 1955Church of St MaryPhoto: Jack Fitzsimons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Church of St Mary · Photo: Jack Fitzsimons · CC BY-SA 4.0–Not graded
History of Crawley · Historic England
22 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade II*
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Crawley’s built-up area, 696 for every 10,000 residents. Of the listed buildings in Crawley, 20 are Grade II. 16% of its homes were built before 1919.
Listed buildings
22
696 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
2
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
16%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Crawley
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. 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 Crawley’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.
22 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I2 Grade II*20 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 2 Grade II* listed buildings in Crawley
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
II*House · listed 1984The Dower HousePhoto: Pierre Terre · CC BY-SA 2.0
What’s protected
Most of Crawley’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas19
Churches, chapels & priories1
Inns, shops & warehouses1
Public & civic buildings1
19 entries (86%) are houses, terraces and villas. 1 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
20 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 20 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Ash Tree Cottage and Becky'sBarn 5 Metres East of the Old ThatchChimney Cottage Tudor Cottage Longwood House and Oak CottageCorner CottageFox and Hounds Public HouseGlenbuck CottageGreenwaysLittle CourtLittle Thatch and Thackery CottagePaige CottagePear Tree CottagePern CottagePitter CottagePond CottagePond HouseThe HomesteadThe Old ThatchThe White HouseYeomansYew Tree Cottage
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 33% of Crawley
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Crawley 197214 ha
14 hain conservation areas, of 42 ha inside the built-up area.
22 of the 22 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 Crawley’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1984
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1984 · 20
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 2 entries were listed in 1955. 20 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Crawley
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crawley | 316 | 22 | 0 | — |
| Littleton | 1,506 | 9 | 0 | C+ |
| South Wonston | 2,686 | 0 | 0 | D |
| Kings Worthy | 4,631 | 27 | 1 | C+ |
| Winchester | 48,486 | 488 | 41 | A |
| King's Somborne | 1,206 | 54 | 0 | A |
| Compton | 1,307 | 5 | 0 | B− |
| Twyford | 1,482 | 53 | 0 | A+ |
In brief
Crawley in brief
The official list counts 22 listed buildings in Crawley. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1972. Most entries on the list, 86%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1984, when 20 of the 22 went on the list. The rest is about typical: 16% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.
Questions about Crawley’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Crawley?
Historic England lists 22 buildings inside Crawley’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 2 Grade II* and 20 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Crawley?
1, covering about 14 hectares of the town. The largest is Crawley.
When were Crawley’s buildings listed?
The first in 1955; the most, 20, in 1984.
How old are the homes in Crawley?
16% of homes were built before 1919 and 24% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Crawley has no History Grade.
© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The National Heritage List for England is the official, up-to-date register of all nationally protected historic buildings and sites in England; check an entry on Historic England’s website before relying on it.
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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