45 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade I

Fairfield HouseGrade I listedChurch of St Mary the VirginGrade I listedBrook HouseGrade II* listed+1See 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.

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 2 entries were listed in 1952, 1 of the 3 Grade I buildings among them. 29 came in 1987, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

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.

21% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, which added 24% 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 (43 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

John Harvey

John Harvey

Edward Harvey

Thomas Huskisson

Cyril Randolph

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John Harvey1740–1794 · Royal Navy officer (1740-1794)

JH

John Harvey1772–1837 · British Naval admiral and conchologist

CR

Cyril Randolph1826–1912 · English cricketer and clergyman

EH

Edward Harvey1783–1865 · British Naval admiral (1783-1865)

TH

Thomas Huskisson1784–1844 · British Royal Navy officer (1784-1844)

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

Old houses are part of Eastry’s character: 22% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 45 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade I. Per resident, it has more listed heritage than 81% of UK towns. Its Grade I buildings cluster together: 3 of them stand within 400 m of Church of St Mary the Virgin.

Only 15 of the 1,364 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. A conservation area protects part of it. Most entries on the list, 58%, are houses, terraces and villas.