House · listed 1955Upper Chilland House
Photo: Nigel Freeman · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
History of Itchen Abbas · Historic England
Itchen Abbas: 44% of homes built before 1919
The typical town has 15%: Itchen Abbas has 3 times the share. Historic England lists 14 buildings inside Itchen Abbas’s built-up area, 270 for every 10,000 residents.
Listed buildings
14
270 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
44%
typical UK town 15%
The map
Where Itchen Abbas’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.
14 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I1 Grade II*13 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 Itchen Abbas
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
Grade II
13 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 13 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 17% of Itchen Abbas
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Chilland 198510 ha
10 hain conservation areas, of 57 ha inside the built-up area.
5 of the 14 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 Itchen Abbas’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1984
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1984 · 9
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The first 4 entries were listed in 1955. 9 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Homes by age
44% of Itchen Abbas’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
40%
Before 1900
4.5%
1900–18
4.5%
1919–29
5.9%
1930s
5.9%
1945–54
8.2%
1955–64
6.8%
1965–72
4.5%
1973–82
6.8%
1983–92
5.9%
1993–99
4.5%
2000–08
1.4%
2009–15
1.4%
2016–25
Itchen AbbasEngland & Wales
40% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, which added 8.2% 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 (7 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Itchen Abbas
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Itchen Abbas | 519 | 14 | 0 | — |
| Kings Worthy | 4,631 | 27 | 1 | C+ |
| New Alresford | 5,340 | 131 | 0 | A− |
| Winchester | 48,486 | 488 | 41 | A |
| South Wonston | 2,686 | 0 | 0 | D |
| Littleton | 1,506 | 9 | 0 | C+ |
| Twyford | 1,482 | 53 | 0 | A+ |
| Compton | 1,307 | 5 | 0 | B− |
In brief
Itchen Abbas in brief
Old houses are part of Itchen Abbas’s character: 44% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 14 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1985. The big year was 1984, when 9 of the 14 went on the list.
Questions about Itchen Abbas’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Itchen Abbas?
Historic England lists 14 buildings inside Itchen Abbas’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 13 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Itchen Abbas?
1, covering about 10 hectares of the town. The largest is Chilland.
When were Itchen Abbas’s buildings listed?
The first in 1955; the most, 9, in 1984.
How old are the homes in Itchen Abbas?
44% of homes were built before 1919 and 54% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Itchen Abbas 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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