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History of Droxford · Historic England

27 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Droxford’s built-up area, 394 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. 43% of its homes were built before 1919.

1Grade I 2Grade II*1scheduled monument

Listed buildings

394 per 10,000 residents

Grade I

exceptional interest

Grade II*

more than special interest

Scheduled monuments

nationally important sites

Homes built before 1919

43%

typical UK town 15%

In pictures

Landmarks of Droxford

Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

Church of St Mary and All SaintsGrade I listed

The Manor HouseGrade 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 Droxford’s history is

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

Grade IGrade II*Scheduled monument

Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.

27 listed buildings by grade

1 Grade I2 Grade II*24 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 Droxford

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 1967Church of St Mary and All SaintsPhoto: Basher Eyre · CC BY-SA 2.0

Grade II*

The 2 Grade II* listed buildings in Droxford

Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. 1 is photographed.

House · listed 1967The Manor HousePhoto: Peter Facey · CC BY-SA 2.0

House · listed 1967The Old Rectory

What’s protected

Most of Droxford’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas21

Inns, shops & warehouses3

Churches, chapels & priories1

Walls, gates & bridges1

Street furniture1

21 entries (78%) are houses, terraces and villas. 1 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

24 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 24 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z

Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 25% of Droxford

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

Droxford 197013 ha

13 hain conservation areas, of 51 ha inside the built-up area.

27 of the 27 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

13 of Droxford’s 27 listed buildings were added in 1987

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

1987 · 131967 · 10

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The first 2 entries were listed in 1952. 13 came in 1987, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

Monuments & landscapes

Monuments, parks and gardens

Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.

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.

Long barrow in the grounds of Long Barrow House

Homes by age

43% of Droxford’s homes were built before 1919

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

34%

Before 1900

8.6%

1900–18

2.3%

1919–29

8.6%

1930s

11%

1945–54

7.6%

1955–64

3.3%

1965–72

3.3%

1973–82

6.6%

1983–92

4.3%

1993–99

4.3%

2000–08

5.3%

2009–15

2016–25

DroxfordEngland & Wales

34% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1945–54, 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 (6 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Droxford

Town	People	Listed	Grade I	History
Droxford	685	27	1	—
Swanmore	3,113	5	0	C
Bishop's Waltham	6,957	110	0	A⁻
Waltham Chase	2,830	2	0	D
Wickham	2,170	66	0	A⁻
Denmead	6,509	6	0	D
Clanfield	1,254	9	0	C
Knowle	1,487	3	0	C

In brief

Droxford in brief

More of Droxford’s homes are old than in most places: 43% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 27 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1970. Most entries on the list, 78%, are houses, terraces and villas. The rest is about typical: Thomas Southey Baker (1848) was born here before 1900; and it also has a scheduled monument.

Questions about Droxford’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Droxford?

Historic England lists 27 buildings inside Droxford’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 2 Grade II* and 24 Grade II.

What are the Grade I listed buildings in Droxford?

One: Church of St Mary and All Saints.

Are there scheduled monuments in Droxford?

Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Long barrow in the grounds of Long Barrow House.

How many conservation areas are there in Droxford?

1, covering about 13 hectares of the town. The largest is Droxford.

When were Droxford’s buildings listed?

The first in 1952; the most, 13, in 1987.

How old are the homes in Droxford?

43% of homes were built before 1919 and 53% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Droxford 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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