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C−History Grade
History of Paddock Wood · Historic England

15 listed buildings

On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Paddock Wood’s built-up area, 20 for every 10,000 residents. All of Paddock Wood’s listed buildings are Grade II. 8.7% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 5 of its listed buildings. Paddock Wood grades C− for history: #66 of 87 in Kent.

Listed buildings
15
20 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
8.7%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures

Paddock Wood in 5 photos

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 Paddock Wood’s history is

Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.

Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
0 of 6neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes.

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

15 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I0 Grade II*15 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 II

15 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 15 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 100% of Paddock Wood

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 HE317 ha
317 hain conservation areas, of 318 ha inside the built-up area.

15 of the 15 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 Paddock Wood’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1990

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

1990 · 12
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 2 entries were listed in 1971. 12 came in 1990, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

History Grade

Paddock Wood grades C− for history

Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.

Protected heritage, for its size and in all (15 points, 20 per 10,000 residents)More than 38% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (8.7%)More than 21% 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

8.7% of Paddock Wood’s homes were built before 1919

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

6.4%
Before 1900
2.5%
1900–18
2%
1919–29
0%
1930s
4.6%
1945–54
15%
1955–64
5.7%
1965–72
18%
1973–82
14%
1983–92
8.7%
1993–99
2.4%
2000–08
1.3%
2009–15
20%
2016–25
Paddock WoodEngland & Wales

6.4% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2016–25, which added 20% 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 (0 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Paddock Wood

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Paddock Wood7,616150C−
Five Oak Green1,436110B+
East Peckham2,144270B+
Horsmonden1,580250A−
Pembury5,783541B+
Yalding1,549661A
Hadlow3,168661A
Marden3,489451A−
In brief

Paddock Wood in brief

Paddock Wood has 15 listed buildings, including Oasthouse About 40 Metres South West of Putlands Farmhouse. A conservation area protects part of it. Its homes are mostly newer: 8.7% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. The big year was 1990, when 12 of the 15 went on the list. The rest is about typical: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and Frederick E. Morgan (1894) was born here before 1900.

Questions about Paddock Wood’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Paddock Wood?

Historic England lists 15 buildings inside Paddock Wood’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 15 Grade II.

How many conservation areas are there in Paddock Wood?

1, covering about 317 hectares of the town. The largest is No data available for publication by HE.

When were Paddock Wood’s buildings listed?

The first in 1971; the most, 12, in 1990.

How old are the homes in Paddock Wood?

8.7% of homes were built before 1919 and 11% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

© 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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