II*Church · listed 1951Parish Church of the Holy TrinityPhoto: John Salmon · CC BY-SA 2.0
The Vicarage · Photo: Ethan Doyle White · CC BY-SA 4.0B+History Grade
History of Queenborough · Historic England
23 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade II*
Historic England counts them inside Queenborough’s built-up area, 59 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. 29% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 5 of its listed buildings. Queenborough grades B+ for history: #27 of 87 in Kent.
Listed buildings
23
59 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
1
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
29%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Queenborough in 6 photos
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Queenborough CastleScheduled monument
Parish Church of the Holy TrinityGrade II* listed
20, High StreetGrade II listed
Mill HouseGrade II listed
Town HallGrade 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 Queenborough’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade II*Scheduled monument
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
23 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I1 Grade II*22 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 Queenborough
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 Queenborough’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas17
Churches, chapels & priories3
Public & civic buildings2
Inns, shops & warehouses1
17 entries (74%) are houses, terraces and villas. 3 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
22 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 22 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Church HouseEvans RowFig Tree HouseMill HouseMonument to Greet Family in Churchyard of Holy Trinity Parish ChurchSwale HouseThe Castle InnThe VicarageTown Hall121, High Street149 and 151, High Street161 and 163, High Street167, High Street20, High Street22, High Street3, High Street5, High Street72 and 74, High Street77, High Street79 and 81, High Street83-91, High Street9, High Street
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 6.2% of Queenborough
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Queenborough 19788 ha
8 hain conservation areas, of 125 ha inside the built-up area.
23 of the 23 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 Queenborough’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1978
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1978 · 131951 · 9
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 9 entries were listed in 1951. 13 came in 1978, 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 scheduled monument
Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.
History Grade
Queenborough grades B+ for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (26 points, 66 per 10,000 residents)More than 60% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (29%)More than 82% 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
29% of Queenborough’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
17%
Before 1900
11%
1900–18
2.4%
1919–29
9.6%
1930s
15%
1945–54
3.3%
1955–64
9.1%
1965–72
16%
1973–82
3.5%
1983–92
0.6%
1993–99
1.2%
2000–08
1.8%
2009–15
9%
2016–25
QueenboroughEngland & Wales
17% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1973–82, which added 16% 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 (20 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Queenborough
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Queenborough | 3,915 | 23 | 0 | B+ |
| Halfway Houses | 4,396 | 2 | 0 | D |
| Sheerness | 13,253 | 51 | 1 | A |
| Minster (Swale) | 16,735 | 9 | 2 | D |
| Iwade | 4,533 | 4 | 1 | D |
| Grain | 1,728 | 3 | 1 | C− |
| Lower Halstow | 1,210 | 4 | 0 | C |
| Eastchurch | 3,381 | 6 | 1 | C |
In brief
Queenborough in brief
Old houses are part of Queenborough’s character: 29% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 23 listed buildings, including Queenborough Castle. On High Street alone there are 13 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1978.
Most entries on the list, 74%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1978, when 13 of the 23 went on the list. Beyond that, like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and Richard Hatherill (1769) was born here before 1900.
Questions about Queenborough’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Queenborough?
Historic England lists 23 buildings inside Queenborough’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 22 Grade II.
Are there scheduled monuments in Queenborough?
Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Queenborough Castle.
How many conservation areas are there in Queenborough?
1, covering about 8 hectares of the town. The largest is Queenborough.
When were Queenborough’s buildings listed?
The first in 1951; the most, 13, in 1978.
How old are the homes in Queenborough?
29% of homes were built before 1919 and 41% 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 · Historic England conservation areas (supplied by local planning authorities; October 2026). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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