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Church of St Mary Magdalene Monkton Kent England from the southeastPhoto: Acabashi · CC BY-SA 4.0
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History of Monkton · Historic England

18 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Monkton’s built-up area, 239 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 17 of Monkton’s listed buildings. 30% of its homes were built before 1919.

Listed buildings
18
239 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
30%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures

Landmarks of Monkton

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 Monkton’s history is

Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.

Church of Saint Mary Magdalene, Grade I
Grade I

Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.

18 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I0 Grade II*17 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 Monkton

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

17 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 17 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 3.8% of Monkton

Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.

Monkton 19782 ha
2 hain conservation areas, of 44 ha inside the built-up area.

4 of the 18 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

9 of Monkton’s 18 listed buildings were added in 1986

The year each building now on the list was first listed.

1986 · 9
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 3 entries were listed in 1963, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 9 came in 1986, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

Homes by age

30% of Monkton’s homes were built before 1919

Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).

30%
Before 1900
1.1%
1900–18
3.3%
1919–29
4.4%
1930s
5.5%
1945–54
5.5%
1955–64
16%
1965–72
4.4%
1973–82
6.6%
1983–92
1.1%
1993–99
4.4%
2000–08
1.1%
2009–15
17%
2016–25
MonktonEngland & Wales

30% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2016–25, which added 17% 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 (8 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Monkton

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Monkton753181—
Minster (Thanet)4,739442B+
Cliffs End1,28410D−
Ash (Dover)2,529651A+
Margate63,3153032A
Sandwich4,2584397A+
Wingham1,313752A+
Ramsgate42,0314405A+
In brief

Monkton in brief

More of Monkton’s homes are old than in most places: 30% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 18 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1978.

Questions about Monkton’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Monkton?

Historic England lists 18 buildings inside Monkton’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 17 Grade II.

What are the Grade I listed buildings in Monkton?

One: Church of Saint Mary Magdalene.

How many conservation areas are there in Monkton?

1, covering about 2 hectares of the town. The largest is Monkton.

When were Monkton’s buildings listed?

The first in 1963; the most, 9, in 1986.

How old are the homes in Monkton?

30% of homes were built before 1919 and 38% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Monkton has no History Grade.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The National Heritage List for England is the official, up-to-date register of all nationally protected historic buildings and sites in England; check an entry on Historic England’s website before relying on it.

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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