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History of Sole Street · Historic England

3 listed buildings

On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Sole Street’s built-up area, 30 for every 10,000 residents. Sole Street’s listed buildings are all Grade II. 34% of its homes were built before 1919.

Listed buildings
3
30 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
34%
typical UK town 15%
The map

Where Sole Street’s history is

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

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

3 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I0 Grade II*3 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

3 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 3 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Homes by age

34% of Sole Street’s homes were built before 1919

Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).

28%
Before 1900
6.7%
1900–18
6.7%
1919–29
1.7%
1930s
13%
1945–54
13%
1955–64
22%
1965–72
1.7%
1973–82
1.7%
1983–92
1.7%
1993–99
1.7%
2000–08
1.7%
2009–15
0%
2016–25
Sole StreetEngland & Wales

28% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 22% 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 (7 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Sole Street

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Sole Street98830—
Meopham4,349201B−
Istead Rise3,39810D−
Shorne1,038190A−
Gravesend58,1051220B+
Longfield, New Ash Green and Hartley16,077212C
Cuxton3,03951C−
Halling2,92641B−
In brief

Sole Street in brief

More of Sole Street’s homes are old than in most places: 34% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 3 listed buildings. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: the list grew between 1966 and 1983.

Questions about Sole Street’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Sole Street?

Historic England lists 3 buildings inside Sole Street’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 3 Grade II.

How old are the homes in Sole Street?

34% of homes were built before 1919 and 43% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Sole Street 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. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.