II*Public · listed 1967Bell Cottage Sissinghurst Post OfficePhoto: Oast House Archive · CC BY-SA 2.0
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History of Sissinghurst · Historic England
Sissinghurst: 47% of homes built before 1919
The typical town has 15%: Sissinghurst has 3 times the share. Historic England lists 28 buildings inside Sissinghurst’s built-up area, 374 for every 10,000 residents.
Listed buildings
28
374 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
2
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
1 registered park or garden
Homes built before 1919
47%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Sissinghurst
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 Sissinghurst’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade II*Park or garden
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
28 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I2 Grade II*26 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 2 Grade II* listed buildings in Sissinghurst
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
II*House · listed 1967King's Head HousePhoto: N Chadwick · CC BY-SA 2.0
What’s protected
Most of Sissinghurst’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas17
Public & civic buildings4
Inns, shops & warehouses3
Churches, chapels & priories2
Walls, gates & bridges2
17 entries (61%) are houses, terraces and villas. 2 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
26 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 26 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Alpine Cottages Milkhouse Antique ShopApril Cottage the Corner House the CottageAt LastCarpenter's CornerChurch HouseChurch of the Holy TrinityCollins FarmhouseCrossways Weaver's CottageForge CottageGarden Pavilion 60 Yards of Sissinghurst CourtGatehouse FarmhouseHazelhurst Cottage Lilac CottageMill CottageMouse HallNelson Cottage the BakeryOast Cottage the Oast HousePlummer's FarmhouseReed's CottagesReed's CottagesSissinghurst Court and Entrance WallThe Bull Public HouseThe CrosswaysThe Old BarracksThe Old VicarageVirginia HouseWalnut Trees
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 100% of Sissinghurst
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 HE67 ha
67 hain conservation areas, of 67 ha inside the built-up area.
28 of the 28 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
14 of Sissinghurst’s 28 listed buildings were added in 1986
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1986 · 141967 · 11
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 2 entries were listed in 1952. 14 came in 1986, 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 registered park or garden
Sissinghurst CourtGrade II
Homes by age
47% of Sissinghurst’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
44%
Before 1900
3.1%
1900–18
5%
1919–29
0.9%
1930s
1.9%
1945–54
7.1%
1955–64
13%
1965–72
3.1%
1973–82
1.9%
1983–92
3.1%
1993–99
1.9%
2000–08
1.9%
2009–15
13%
2016–25
SissinghurstEngland & Wales
44% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 13% 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 (6 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Sissinghurst
In brief
Sissinghurst in brief
Old houses are part of Sissinghurst’s character: 47% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 28 listed buildings. A conservation area protects part of it. Of the whole list, 61% are houses, terraces and villas.
Questions about Sissinghurst’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Sissinghurst?
Historic England lists 28 buildings inside Sissinghurst’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 2 Grade II* and 26 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Sissinghurst?
1, covering about 67 hectares of the town. The largest is No data available for publication by HE.
When were Sissinghurst’s buildings listed?
The first in 1952; the most, 14, in 1986.
How old are the homes in Sissinghurst?
47% of homes were built before 1919 and 53% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Sissinghurst 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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