29 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Parish Church of St BotolphGrade I listedChurch of All SaintsGrade II* listedThe Earl Grey Public HouseGrade II listedBevan's War Memorial in Northfleet Cement WorksGrade II listedNorthfleet Lower LighthouseGrade II listed+3See all photos

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.

c. 1810

Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

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).

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.

The first 6 entries were listed in 1952, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 11 came in 1983, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 4 have been added in the last 15 years.

2 scheduled monuments

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.

1 registered park or garden

Gravesend CemeteryGrade II*

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.

Alfred Swaine Taylor

William Large

Arthur Gouge

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Alfred Swaine Taylor1806–1880 · British toxicologist, medical writer and photographer

William Large1878–1964 · Public servant, trade unionist and politician in New South Wales, Aus…

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Arthur Gouge1890–1962 · British engineer

Everyone born in Northfleet → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

The official list counts 29 listed buildings in Northfleet, 1 of them Grade I, including Parish Church of St Botolph. Only 80 of the 340 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. Its older streets lie in 4 conservation areas, the first designated in 1990.

Of the whole list, 59% are houses, terraces and villas. Alfred Swaine Taylor (1806), William Large (1878) and Arthur Gouge (1890) were all born here before 1900. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; it also has 2 scheduled monuments; and 21% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.