II*Public · listed 1954Coggers HallPhoto: N Chadwick · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: Chris Heaton · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
History of Lamberhurst · Historic England
Old homes in Lamberhurst: 56% built before 1919
The typical town has 15%: Lamberhurst has 4 times the share. Historic England lists 63 buildings inside Lamberhurst’s built-up area, 856 for every 10,000 residents.
Listed buildings
63
856 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
1 registered park or garden
Homes built before 1919
56%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Lamberhurst
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 Lamberhurst’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade II*Park or garden
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
63 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I1 Grade II*62 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 II*
The Grade II* listed building in Lamberhurst
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
What’s protected
Most of Lamberhurst’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas42
Inns, shops & warehouses8
Public & civic buildings6
Walls, gates & bridges5
Churches, chapels & priories2
42 entries (67%) are houses, terraces and villas. 2 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.
Grade II
62 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 62 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Arnold HouseBanksideBarn About 25 Metres South of Spray Hill FarmhouseBedlamBedwyn Cottage Orchard CottageBradworth Lodge Cromwell HouseBridge HouseCampersCaroline Cottage/Youth Club (The Institute)Christmas Cottage and 28 and 30 Brewer StreetCoggers CottagesCoggers Farmhouse and Walled Forecourt (Farm Shop and National Westminster Bank)Court Lodge Stable Yard and Walled GardensCutthornDown CottagesDown CottagesDown Farm Oasts Down Farm Oasts and Fuggles Oast HouseDown FarmhouseDurham CottagesForge HouseGates to Murlingden, Piers and Wall Attached, Immediately North of the Strict Baptist ChapelHicknotts CottagesHolly House and Ricardes ToftHorse and Groom Public HouseK6 Telephone Kiosk Outside Village HallLaburnum CottageLamberhurst ForgeLamberhust Primary SchoolManor CottagesManordenMill Building Now F Hawkins and Sons Limited PremisesMill CottageMill HouseOasthouse About 50 Metres South of Spray Hill FarmhouseOuthouse About 1 Metre East of the Chequers InnRiverside HouseRope HouseScotney Castle LodgeSection of Railings Adjoining Village HallSpray Hill FarmhouseStable Block About 25 Metres East of the Chequers Inn and Wall AttachedStair HouseStrict Baptist Chapel and Walled ForecourtSunny BankTanyard CottagesThe CharityThe Chequers InnThe PrioryThe TanhouseThe Tyled HouseThe VicarageTudor CottageTyled CottageVictoria HouseWall About 10 Metres East of Coggers HallWall and Railings to Front Garden of BanksideWalsingham, Formerly Called Hillside, With Stable Block Attached1 and 2, High Street3, High Street4, High Street5 and 6, High Street5,6,7, School Hill
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 100% of Lamberhurst
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
No data available for publication by HE55 ha
55 hain conservation areas, of 55 ha inside the built-up area.
63 of the 63 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.
How the list grew
More than half of Lamberhurst’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1989
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1989 · 441954 · 13
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 13 entries were listed in 1954. 44 came in 1989, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Monuments & landscapes
Monuments, parks and gardens
Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.
1 registered park or garden
Scotney CastleGrade I
Homes by age
56% of Lamberhurst’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
53%
Before 1900
4.2%
1900–18
1.3%
1919–29
1.3%
1930s
8.8%
1945–54
5.8%
1955–64
2.9%
1965–72
5.8%
1973–82
5.8%
1983–92
2.9%
1993–99
7.1%
2000–08
0%
2009–15
1.3%
2016–25
LamberhurstEngland & Wales
53% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1945–54, which added 8.8% 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 (4 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Lamberhurst
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lamberhurst | 736 | 63 | 0 | — |
| Goudhurst | 1,104 | 86 | 1 | A+ |
| Horsmonden | 1,580 | 25 | 0 | A− |
| Wadhurst | 3,408 | 62 | 1 | A |
| Ticehurst | 1,464 | 65 | 0 | A |
| Pembury | 5,783 | 54 | 1 | B+ |
| Paddock Wood | 7,616 | 15 | 0 | C− |
| Royal Tunbridge Wells | 51,215 | 275 | 1 | A |
In brief
Lamberhurst in brief
More of Lamberhurst’s homes are old than in most places: 56% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 63 listed buildings. A conservation area protects part of it. Most entries on the list, 67%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1989, when 44 of the 63 went on the list.
Questions about Lamberhurst’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Lamberhurst?
Historic England lists 63 buildings inside Lamberhurst’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 62 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Lamberhurst?
1, covering about 55 hectares of the town. The largest is No data available for publication by HE.
When were Lamberhurst’s buildings listed?
The first in 1954; the most, 44, in 1989.
How old are the homes in Lamberhurst?
56% of homes were built before 1919 and 59% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Lamberhurst has no History Grade.
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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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