277 listed buildings, 12 of them Grade II*

Sevenoaks SchoolGrade II* listedAlmshousesGrade II* listedThe White Hart Public HouseGrade II listedManse the Baptist ChurchGrade II listedChurch of St MaryGrade II listed+13See 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.

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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).

High Street39 listed · 3 II*

London Road16 listed

Six Bells Lane5 listed

Chipstead Lane4 listed

Dorset Street4 listed

Bayham Road3 listed

Of the 277 entries, 93 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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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 44 entries were listed in 1951. 67 came in 1972, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has 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.

Bowl barrow in Millpond Wood

Montreal Park obelisk

1 registered park or garden

KnoleGrade I

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.

19% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was the 1930s, which added 12% 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 (71 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst

William Amherst

Anne Seymour Damer

John Epps

John Miller Adye

George Kelson

Thomas Ignatius Gasson

Sydney Dodd

Percy Laurie

C. W. R. Knight

Andrew Thorne

Netta Muskett

Claude Houghton

Chuck Clark

Stephen Hemsley Longrigg

Horace Taylor

Cecil Frederick King

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Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst1717–1797 · British Army officer (1717–1797)

Anne Seymour Damer1748–1828 · British artist (1748–1828)

John Miller Adye1819–1900 · British Army general (1819-1900)

William Amherst1732–1781 · British Army general (1732-1781)

Andrew Thorne1885–1970 · British Army general (1885–1970)

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John Epps1805–1869 · British homeopath

CH

Claude Houghton1889–1961 · British novelist (1889–1961)

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Percy Laurie1880–1962 · British Army general

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

Old houses are part of Sevenoaks’s character: 23% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 277 listed buildings, including Knole. Per resident, it has more listed heritage than 85% of UK towns. On High Street alone there are 39 listed buildings.

A conservation area protects part of it. Most entries on the list, 61%, are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 17 people born here before 1900, the best known include Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (1717), Anne Seymour Damer (1748) and John Miller Adye (1819). Beyond that, like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; and it also has 2 scheduled monuments.