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St Mary, Sellindge, Kent (geograph 2069643)Photo: John Salmon · CC BY-SA 2.0
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History of Sellindge · Historic England

16 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Sellindge’s built-up area, 209 for every 10,000 residents. 15 of Sellindge’s listed buildings are Grade II. 17% of its homes were built before 1919.

Listed buildings
16
209 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
17%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures

Landmarks of Sellindge

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 Sellindge’s history is

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

Church of St Mary, Grade I
Grade I

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

16 listed buildings by grade
1 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.

Grade I

The Grade I listed building in Sellindge

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

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 1.7% of Sellindge

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 HE1 ha
1 hain conservation areas, of 81 ha inside the built-up area.

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 Sellindge’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1986

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

1986 · 101966 · 6
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 6 entries were listed in 1966, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 10 came in 1986, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Sellindge

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Sellindge766161—
Lympne1,07410C−
Brabourne Lees1,479150B+
Aldington1,280130B
Lyminge1,918121B+
Hythe14,6131141A−
Dymchurch3,097220B−
Finberry1,57100D−
In brief

Sellindge in brief

The official list counts 16 listed buildings in Sellindge, 1 of them Grade I. A conservation area protects part of it. The big year was 1986, when 10 of the 16 went on the list. Beyond that, Edmund Berry Godfrey (1622) was born here before 1900; and 17% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.

Questions about Sellindge’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Sellindge?

Historic England lists 16 buildings inside Sellindge’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 15 Grade II.

What are the Grade I listed buildings in Sellindge?

One: Church of St Mary.

How many conservation areas are there in Sellindge?

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

When were Sellindge’s buildings listed?

The first in 1966; the most, 10, in 1986.

How old are the homes in Sellindge?

17% of homes were built before 1919 and 25% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Sellindge 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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