IChurch · listed 1966Church of St John the BaptistPhoto: Robin Webster · CC BY-SA 2.0
Bishop's palace at Halling · Photo: Marathon · CC BY-SA 2.0B−History Grade
History of Halling · Historic England
4 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Halling’s built-up area, 14 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. 25% of its homes were built before 1919. Halling grades B− for history: #57 of 87 in Kent.
Listed buildings
4
14 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
1
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
25%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Halling
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 Halling’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade IGrade II*Scheduled monument
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
4 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I1 Grade II*2 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 Halling
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.
Grade II*
The Grade II* listed building in Halling
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest.
House · listed 198694-96, High Street
Grade II
2 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 2 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 4.4% of Halling
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Halling 19953 ha
3 hain conservation areas, of 63 ha inside the built-up area.
4 of the 4 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.
Monuments & landscapes
Monuments, parks and gardens
Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.
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.
History Grade
Halling 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 (9 points, 31 per 10,000 residents)More than 37% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (25%)More than 74% 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.
Homes by age
25% of Halling’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
22%
Before 1900
2.6%
1900–18
0.6%
1919–29
1.8%
1930s
7.3%
1945–54
2%
1955–64
2.4%
1965–72
1.8%
1973–82
6.5%
1983–92
25%
1993–99
3.5%
2000–08
17%
2009–15
7.1%
2016–25
HallingEngland & Wales
22% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1993–99, which added 25% 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 (0 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Towns its size
Halling has the 93rd most Grade I buildings of 1,237 towns its size
Places of 2,000–5,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Halling1
#945 of 1,237for listed buildings per resident (14 per 10,000). Painswick, Sandwich and Chipping Campden lead.
92 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Halling
In brief
Halling in brief
More of Halling’s homes are old than in most places: 25% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 4 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of St John the Baptist. Only 92 of the 1,237 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1995. The rest is about typical: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; Thomas James Harris (1892) and George Edward Brett (1829) were born here before 1900; and the list grew between 1966 and 1986.
Questions about Halling’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Halling?
Historic England lists 4 buildings inside Halling’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 2 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Halling?
One: Church of St John the Baptist.
Are there scheduled monuments in Halling?
Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Bishop's palace at Halling.
How many conservation areas are there in Halling?
1, covering about 3 hectares of the town. The largest is Halling.
How old are the homes in Halling?
25% of homes were built before 1919 and 27% 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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