II*Church · listed 1954Church of St MartinPhoto: John Salmon · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: Marathon · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
History of Brasted · Historic England
Old homes in Brasted: 46% built before 1919
For Brasted, that is 3 times the typical town’s share, 15%. Historic England lists 42 buildings inside Brasted’s built-up area, 459 for every 10,000 residents.
Listed buildings
42
459 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
1 registered park or garden
Homes built before 1919
46%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Brasted
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 Brasted’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade II*Park or garden
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
42 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I1 Grade II*41 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 Brasted
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
What’s protected
Most of Brasted’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas28
Walls, gates & bridges6
Inns, shops & warehouses4
Street furniture2
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
Churches, chapels & priories1
28 entries (67%) 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
41 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 41 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Alms Row CottagesAlms Row CottagesAlms Row CottagesAlms Row CottagesAntique ShopBarton's CottagesBarton's Cottages Swan'sBrasted House and Wall to East West Cottage and Wall to Front and WestBrasted War MemorialC15 Tucke Shoppe Premises Occupied by le WattsCombe Bank LodgeDarenth CottageDilgerts and EversleyForecourt Wall to the Mount HouseGarden Walls to West of the Mount HouseIvy House, The Old Bakery and Fig Tree CottageK6 Telephone KioskMandeys South Down HouseMarkwickMill Farm HouseMount Cottage Premises Occupied by Mjp LimitedNorth Boundary Wall to Grounds of Brasted PlaceOld Forge CottagePremises Occupied by Ml Maudsley Premises Occupied by Westminster Bank RoughwoodPump in Middle of Village GreenRectory LodgeScreen Wall with Entrance Gates to West of Combe Bank LodgeSection of Stable Building with Clock Tower and Cupola to North West of Brasted Place the Clock HouseSwaylands Cottage, The Green Swaylands, The GreenThe GreenThe Green the Old Manor House, The GreenThe Lodge and Entrance Gateway to Brasted PlaceThe Mount House Wall Running West from South West Corner of Mount HouseThe Old RectoryThe PharmacyThe Village HouseThe White HouseWhite Hart Cottages1-5, Elliots Lane1-5, Rectory Lane17, High Street, Kent Cottage, Cromers Cottage, and The House and The Shop
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 100% of Brasted
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
No data available for publication by HE46 ha
46 hain conservation areas, of 46 ha inside the built-up area.
42 of the 42 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 Brasted’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1975
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1975 · 261954 · 13
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The first 13 entries were listed in 1954. 26 came in 1975, 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 registered park or garden
Combe BankGrade II*
Homes by age
46% of Brasted’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
42%
Before 1900
6.4%
1900–18
3.5%
1919–29
11%
1930s
11%
1945–54
11%
1955–64
2.7%
1965–72
2.9%
1973–82
1.3%
1983–92
2.9%
1993–99
2.7%
2000–08
2.7%
2009–15
0%
2016–25
BrastedEngland & Wales
42% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, 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 (2 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Born here
4 notable people born in Brasted before 1900
Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
John Verney
William Cookesley
Charles Gausden
George Marchant
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Charles Gausden1826–1886 · Cricketer (1826-1886)
George Marchant1857–1941 · Australian businessman
John Verney1699–1741 · British barrister, judge and politician
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William Cookesley1802–1880 · English cricketer
Everyone born in Brasted → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Brasted
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brasted | 915 | 42 | 0 | — |
| Sundridge | 1,190 | 47 | 3 | A+ |
| Westerham | 3,390 | 102 | 1 | A+ |
| Dunton Green | 3,241 | 2 | 0 | D |
| Sevenoaks | 26,474 | 277 | 0 | A |
| Tatsfield | 1,379 | 1 | 0 | C− |
| Limpsfield | 2,247 | 41 | 2 | A |
| Otford and Kemsing | 7,332 | 57 | 1 | B |
In brief
Brasted in brief
Old houses are part of Brasted’s character: 46% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 42 listed buildings. A conservation area protects part of it.
Most entries on the list, 67%, are houses, terraces and villas. Charles Gausden (1826), George Marchant (1857) and John Verney (1699) are among the 4 people born here before 1900. The big year was 1975, when 26 of the 42 went on the list.
Questions about Brasted’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Brasted?
Historic England lists 42 buildings inside Brasted’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 41 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Brasted?
1, covering about 46 hectares of the town. The largest is No data available for publication by HE.
When were Brasted’s buildings listed?
The first in 1954; the most, 26, in 1975.
Who was born in Brasted?
Among people born before 1900: Charles Gausden (1826), George Marchant (1857), John Verney (1699) and William Cookesley (1802).
How old are the homes in Brasted?
46% of homes were built before 1919 and 60% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Brasted 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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