32 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Church of St MaryGrade I listedThe Artichoke InnGrade II listedRentain FarmhouseGrade II listedHope CottageGrade II listedFormer King's Head InnGrade II listed+2See all photos

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.

c. 1908

Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

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.

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.

The first 3 entries were listed in 1952. 15 came in 1980, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

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.

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.

Hardress Waller

Harry Moody

Edwin Cheel

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EC

Edwin Cheel1872–1951 · Australian botanist (1872-1951)

Hardress Waller1604–1666 · English politician

HM

Harry Moody1832–1921 · English civil servant and cricketer

Everyone born in Chartham → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

Chartham has 32 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of St Mary. Only 95 of the 1,124 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. A conservation area protects part of it.

Of the whole list, 72% are houses, terraces and villas. Edwin Cheel (1872), Hardress Waller (1604) and Harry Moody (1832) were all born here before 1900. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; it also has a scheduled monument; and 21% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.