The Flying Dutchman Public House · Photo: Ian Capper · CC BY-SA 2.045 listed buildings
Historic England counts them inside Hildenborough’s built-up area, 91 for every 10,000 residents. All of Hildenborough’s listed buildings are Grade II. We have photos of 6 of its listed buildings. 13% of its homes were built before 1919. Hildenborough grades B for history: #44 of 87 in Kent.
Hildenborough in 6 photos
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Lodge at the Entrance to Sackville SchoolGrade II listed
Mountains LodgeGrade II listed
Parish Church of St JohnGrade II listed
Little FoxbushGrade II listed
Farm CottageGrade II listed+1See 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.
Where Hildenborough’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
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.
Most of Hildenborough’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
30 entries (67%) are houses, terraces and villas. 5 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.
45 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 45 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
1 conservation area covers 2.4% of Hildenborough
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
12 of the 45 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.
More than half of Hildenborough’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1990
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
The first 2 entries were listed in 1950. 38 came in 1990, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.
Hildenborough grades B for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all 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.
Listed buildings in the places around Hildenborough
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hildenborough | 4,943 | 45 | 0 | B |
| Tonbridge | 36,136 | 108 | 2 | B+ |
| Leigh | 1,104 | 39 | 0 | A+ |
| Southborough | 9,632 | 26 | 0 | B+ |
| Hadlow | 3,168 | 66 | 1 | A |
| Plaxtol | 1,137 | 38 | 0 | A+ |
| Five Oak Green | 1,436 | 11 | 0 | B+ |
| Ightham | 2,037 | 47 | 1 | A |
Hildenborough in brief
Hildenborough has 45 listed buildings, including The Flying Dutchman Public House. A conservation area protects part of it. Of the whole list, 67% are houses, terraces and villas. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1990: 38 of 45. Beyond that, per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and 13% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.
Questions about Hildenborough’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Hildenborough?
Historic England lists 45 buildings inside Hildenborough’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 45 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Hildenborough?
1, covering about 6 hectares of the town. The largest is Hildenborough.
When were Hildenborough’s buildings listed?
The first in 1950; the most, 38, in 1990.
How old are the homes in Hildenborough?
13% of homes were built before 1919 and 30% 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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