IChurch · listed 1962Parish Church of St MaryPhoto: David Anstiss · CC BY-SA 2.0
Parish Church of St Mary · Photo: David Anstiss · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
History of Rolvenden · Historic England
45 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Rolvenden’s built-up area, 554 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 42 of Rolvenden’s listed buildings. 38% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 3 of its listed buildings.
Listed buildings
45
554 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
2
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
1 registered park or garden
Homes built before 1919
38%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Rolvenden
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 Rolvenden’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade IGrade II*Park or garden
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
45 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I2 Grade II*42 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 Rolvenden
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*
The 2 Grade II* listed buildings in Rolvenden
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed.
II*House · listed 1952KingpostPhoto: David Kemp · CC BY-SA 2.0
II*House · listed 19622, 4 and 6, Hastings RoadPhoto: Oast House Archive · CC BY-SA 2.0
What’s protected
Most of Rolvenden’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas36
Street furniture3
Inns, shops & warehouses2
Memorials, crosses & tombs2
Churches, chapels & priories1
Public & civic buildings1
36 entries (80%) are houses, terraces and villas. 1 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings.
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
42 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 42 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Alma CottagesBull FarmhouseBull HotelChamberlaynes TweediesConveneysCrescent CottageDisused Forge Adjoining No 64 to the SouthEast HouseForge CottageFormer Working Men's ClubGarage Block to Chamberlaynes and Tweedies to West of HouseK6 Telephone KioskLime HousePump Opposite No 60Rolvenden War MemorialSchool HouseStreyte CottageThe FirsThe Old ParsonageThe Star Public HouseTomb in Churchyard to Edward Walter ForbesVillage Pump Opposite No 29Woodencote12-18, High Street2 and 4, High Street2 and 4, Regent Street20, High Street26 and 28, High Street32 and 34, High Street36-46, High Street39-43, High Street45-55, High Street52 and 54, High Street56 and 58, High Street57, High Street59 and 61, High Street6, High Street60 and 62, High Street63-73, High Street78, High Street8, High Street8-22, Hastings Road
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 100% of Rolvenden
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 HE34 ha
34 hain conservation areas, of 34 ha inside the built-up area.
45 of the 45 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 Rolvenden’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1962
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1962 · 231979 · 17
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The first 2 entries were listed in 1952. 23 came in 1962. 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
Great MaythamGrade II
Homes by age
38% of Rolvenden’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
34%
Before 1900
2.9%
1900–18
7.5%
1919–29
1.6%
1930s
16%
1945–54
6%
1955–64
4.4%
1965–72
6%
1973–82
8.8%
1983–92
1.6%
1993–99
1.6%
2000–08
1.6%
2009–15
7.5%
2016–25
RolvendenEngland & Wales
34% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1945–54, 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 (11 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Born here
3 notable people born in Rolvenden before 1900
Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
Robert Monypenny
Frederick Johnson
Margaret Winser
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FJ
Frederick Johnson1851–1923 · Cricketer (1851-1923)
RM
Robert Monypenny1836–1890 · English cricketer and barrister
MW
Margaret Winser1868–1944 · British sculptor and artist
Everyone born in Rolvenden → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Rolvenden
In brief
Rolvenden in brief
More of Rolvenden’s homes are old than in most places: 38% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 45 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. On High Street alone there are 17 listed buildings. A conservation area protects part of it.
Most entries on the list, 80%, are houses, terraces and villas. Frederick Johnson (1851), Robert Monypenny (1836) and Margaret Winser (1868) were all born here before 1900. The big year was 1962, when 23 of the 45 went on the list.
Questions about Rolvenden’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Rolvenden?
Historic England lists 45 buildings inside Rolvenden’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 2 Grade II* and 42 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Rolvenden?
One: Parish Church of St Mary.
How many conservation areas are there in Rolvenden?
1, covering about 34 hectares of the town. The largest is No data available for publication by HE.
When were Rolvenden’s buildings listed?
The first in 1952; the most, 23, in 1962.
Who was born in Rolvenden?
Among people born before 1900: Frederick Johnson (1851), Robert Monypenny (1836) and Margaret Winser (1868).
How old are the homes in Rolvenden?
38% of homes were built before 1919 and 47% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Rolvenden 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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