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History of Trottiscliffe · Historic England

19 listed buildings

Historic England counts them inside Trottiscliffe’s built-up area, 725 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. 30% of its homes were built before 1919.

Listed buildings
19
725 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
1
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
30%
typical UK town 15%
The map

Where Trottiscliffe’s history is

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

Bowl barrow south of Mount Mead, scheduled monument
Scheduled monument

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

19 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I0 Grade II*19 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

19 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 19 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 24% of Trottiscliffe

Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.

Trottiscliffe 19728 ha
8 hain conservation areas, of 35 ha inside the built-up area.

19 of the 19 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 Trottiscliffe’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1984

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

1984 · 17
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The first 2 entries were listed in 1952. 17 came in 1984, 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 scheduled monument

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.

Homes by age

30% of Trottiscliffe’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
1.7%
1900–18
5%
1919–29
14%
1930s
5%
1945–54
13%
1955–64
6.7%
1965–72
5%
1973–82
4.2%
1983–92
5%
1993–99
5%
2000–08
0.8%
2009–15
6.7%
2016–25
TrottiscliffeEngland & Wales

28% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was the 1930s, which added 14% 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 (4 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Trottiscliffe

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Trottiscliffe262190—
Vigo Village2,00500D−
Culverstone Green2,03820D
Wrotham1,961521A
Borough Green4,712330B
West Malling4,2511687A
Snodland11,820211B−
Ightham2,037471A
In brief

Trottiscliffe in brief

Old houses are part of Trottiscliffe’s character: 30% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 19 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1972. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1984: 17 of 19. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: it also has a scheduled monument.

Questions about Trottiscliffe’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Trottiscliffe?

Historic England lists 19 buildings inside Trottiscliffe’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 19 Grade II.

Are there scheduled monuments in Trottiscliffe?

Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Bowl barrow south of Mount Mead.

How many conservation areas are there in Trottiscliffe?

1, covering about 8 hectares of the town. The largest is Trottiscliffe.

When were Trottiscliffe’s buildings listed?

The first in 1952; the most, 17, in 1984.

How old are the homes in Trottiscliffe?

30% of homes were built before 1919 and 49% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Trottiscliffe 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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