IChurch · listed 1953St Helen's ChurchOn the list as Church of St HelenPhoto: Colin Riegels / Legis at en · Public domain
The Swan Public House · Photo: Geographer · CC BY-SA 2.0B+History Grade
History of Wheathampstead · Historic England
48 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
Historic England counts them inside Wheathampstead’s built-up area, 106 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 47 of Wheathampstead’s listed buildings. We have photos of 4 of its listed buildings and 3 old views of the town. 13% of its homes were built before 1919. Wheathampstead grades B+ for history: #16 of 50 in Hertfordshire.
Listed buildings
48
106 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
13%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Wheathampstead in 7 photos and old views
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed, and the town before 1950. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Church of St HelenGrade I listed
The Old SchoolGrade II listed
The Bull InnGrade II listed+4See all photosPhotos 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.
Through time
Wheathampstead in old photos
3 old photos and postcards, in date order. All public domain, made before 1950.
1910
Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.
The map
Where Wheathampstead’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade I
0 of 4neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
48 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I0 Grade II*47 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 Wheathampstead
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.
What’s protected
Most of Wheathampstead’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas29
Memorials, crosses & tombs6
Inns, shops & warehouses5
Walls, gates & bridges4
Public & civic buildings3
Churches, chapels & priories1
29 entries (60%) 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
47 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 47 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Ackroyds BakeryBarn at Rear of No. 45Bell and Crown Public HouseBury Farm CottagesChest Tomb in St Helen's Churchyard 10 Metres North East of Chancel, Inscription Indecipherable.Chest Tomb in St Helen's Churchyard 10 Metres South of Chancel to the Wilkins FamilyChest Tomb in St Helen's Churchyard 15 Metres South of Chancel to Elizabeth House 1845Chest Tomb in St Helen's Churchyard 15 Metres South of Chancel to Isaac House 1794Chest Tomb in St Helen's Churchyard 30 Metres West of West End to Reverend PretymanChest Tomb in St Helen's Churchyard 5 Metres South East of Chancel to the Lattimore FamilyCollins Antiques (Including Walls and Cast Iron Railings)Corn MillCunningtons Lighting Centre; Walnut TreeDolphinsFour LimesFront Garden Wall at Wheathampstead PlaceFront Screen Wall at Wheathampstead HouseGable CottageGarden Wallling at Helmets Limited Registered Office and Moat CottageHelmets Limited Registered OfficeHill HouseJessamine CottagesLatimoreLych Gate at St Helens ChurchMarford CottageRosewood CottageThe Bull InnThe LaurelsThe MaltingsThe Old SchoolThe Swan Public HouseWheathampstead Place1 and 2, Bury Green1, Church Street12, High Street133, Marford Road2, High Street20, Lower Luton Road23, High Street25, High Street29, High Street32 and 34, High Street36, High Street4, High Street41, High Street76A and 76B, The Hill8 and 10, High Street
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 18% of Wheathampstead
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Wheathampstead 196922 ha
22 hain conservation areas, of 124 ha inside the built-up area.
45 of the 48 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
23 of Wheathampstead’s 48 listed buildings were added in 1984
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1984 · 231971 · 18
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 3 entries were listed in 1953, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 23 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
History Grade
Wheathampstead grades B+ for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (50 points, 111 per 10,000 residents)More than 74% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (13%)More than 37% of UK towns
Two measures, each ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, with protected heritage counting twice as much as the age of homes. Protected heritage counts each listed building by its grade (Grade I three points, II* two, II one), each scheduled monument and battlefield two, and each registered park or garden by its grade; it is ranked both per 10,000 residents and as a total, so a village with one fine church doesn’t outrank a historic city. The second measure is the share of homes built before 1919, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records. History is a character grade: it describes the town and isn’t part of the overall grade.
Towns its size
Wheathampstead has the 89th most Grade I buildings of 979 towns its size
Places of 3,000–7,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Wheathampstead1
#212 of 979for listed buildings per resident (106 per 10,000). Sandwich, Tenby and Arundel lead.
88 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Wheathampstead
In brief
Wheathampstead in brief
Wheathampstead has 48 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including St Helen's Church. Only 88 of the 979 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. On High Street alone there are 10 listed buildings.
A conservation area has protected part of it since 1969. Of the whole list, 60% are houses, terraces and villas. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; Horace Lambart, 11th Earl of Cavan (1878) was born here before 1900; and 13% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.
Questions about Wheathampstead’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Wheathampstead?
Historic England lists 48 buildings inside Wheathampstead’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 47 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Wheathampstead?
One: Church of St Helen.
How many conservation areas are there in Wheathampstead?
1, covering about 22 hectares of the town. The largest is Wheathampstead.
When were Wheathampstead’s buildings listed?
The first in 1953; the most, 23, in 1984.
Are there old photos of Wheathampstead?
Yes: 3 public-domain photos and postcards from 1910 to 1910, all on this page.
How old are the homes in Wheathampstead?
13% of homes were built before 1919 and 23% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
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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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