IChurch · listed 1966Church of St Werburgh, HooOn the list as Church of St WerburghPhoto: Ifor R Griffiths · CC BY-SA 2.0
The Chequer's Public House · Photo: Chris Whippet · CC BY-SA 2.0DHistory Grade
History of Hoo St Werburgh · Historic England
6 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
Historic England counts them inside Hoo St Werburgh’s built-up area, 6.9 for every 10,000 residents. 5 of Hoo St Werburgh’s listed buildings are Grade II. 3.8% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 4 of its listed buildings. Hoo St Werburgh grades D for history: #75 of 87 in Kent.
Listed buildings
6
6.9 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
3.8%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Hoo St Werburgh
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Church of St WerburghGrade I listed
Meadow HouseGrade II listed
Ivy HouseGrade 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.
The map
Where Hoo St Werburgh’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Grade I
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
0 of 5neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
6 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I0 Grade II*5 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. Neighbourhood dots: the population-weighted centre of each Census 2021 output area, coloured by its neighbourhood’s (LSOA’s) share of homes built before 1919 (Valuation Office Agency, March 2025).
Grade I
The Grade I listed building in Hoo St Werburgh
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
5 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 5 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
History Grade
Hoo St Werburgh grades D for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (8 points, 9 per 10,000 residents)More than 24% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (3.8%)More than 7% 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
3.8% of Hoo St Werburgh’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
3%
Before 1900
0.7%
1900–18
1.1%
1919–29
2.4%
1930s
5.2%
1945–54
19%
1955–64
13%
1965–72
4.8%
1973–82
6.3%
1983–92
3.6%
1993–99
5.1%
2000–08
17%
2009–15
19%
2016–25
Hoo St WerburghEngland & Wales
3% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2016–25, which added 19% 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 (9 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Towns its size
Hoo St Werburgh has the 93rd most Grade I buildings of 709 towns its size
Places of 5,000–14,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Hoo St Werburgh1
#571 of 709for listed buildings per resident (7 per 10,000). Brecon, Dartmouth and Malmesbury lead.
92 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Hoo St Werburgh
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hoo St Werburgh | 8,758 | 6 | 1 | D |
| Chattenden | 2,417 | 0 | 0 | D− |
| High Halstow | 1,823 | 2 | 1 | C− |
| Cliffe Woods | 2,689 | 0 | 0 | D− |
| Gillingham | 108,485 | 130 | 4 | B+ |
| Cliffe | 2,531 | 15 | 1 | B+ |
| Rochester | 67,279 | 279 | 21 | A− |
| Higham | 2,642 | 4 | 1 | C |
In brief
Hoo St Werburgh in brief
Hoo St Werburgh has 6 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of St Werburgh, Hoo. Only 92 of the 709 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. Its homes are mostly newer: 3.8% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. For its size the list is short: per resident, it has more listed heritage than only 24% of UK towns. The rest is about typical: James Batchelor (1895) was born here before 1900; and the list grew between 1966 and 2018.
Questions about Hoo St Werburgh’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Hoo St Werburgh?
Historic England lists 6 buildings inside Hoo St Werburgh’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 5 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Hoo St Werburgh?
One: Church of St Werburgh.
How old are the homes in Hoo St Werburgh?
3.8% of homes were built before 1919 and 7.3% 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. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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