IHouse · listed 1954Quebec HousePhoto: Oast House Archive · CC BY-SA 2.0
Church of St Mary the Virgin · Photo: John Salmon · CC BY-SA 2.0A+History Grade
History of Westerham · Historic England
102 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Westerham’s built-up area, 301 for every 10,000 residents. Of the listed buildings in Westerham, 91 are Grade II. 32% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 7 of its listed buildings. Westerham grades A+ for history: #4 of 87 in Kent.
Listed buildings
102
301 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
10
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
32%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Westerham in 7 photos
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Quebec HouseGrade I listed
Statue of General WolfeGrade II* listed
The King's Arms HotelGrade II listed
Chart's Edge CottagesGrade II listed
The George and Dragon HotelGrade II listed+2See all photosPhotos 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 Westerham’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade IGrade II*
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
102 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I10 Grade II*91 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 Westerham
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*
The 10 Grade II* listed buildings in Westerham
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. 3 are photographed.
II*Church · listed 1954Church of St Mary the VirginPhoto: John Salmon · CC BY-SA 2.0
II*Memorials · listed 1954Statue of General WolfePhoto: Gordon Griffiths · CC BY-SA 2.0
II*Public · listed 1954Court LodgePhoto: Oast House Archive · CC BY-SA 2.0
House · listed 1954Darenth Cottage
House · listed 1954Farley Wolfelands
House · listed 1954Grosvenor House
House · listed 1954Rysted House
House · listed 1954Squerryes Lodge
House · listed 1954The Vicarage and Vicarage Flat Above
House · listed 195449 and 51, High Street
What’s protected
Most of Westerham’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas69
Walls, gates & bridges11
Inns, shops & warehouses10
Memorials, crosses & tombs4
Churches, chapels & priories4
Public & civic buildings4
69 entries (68%) are houses, terraces and villas. 4 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
91 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 91 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Bank CottageBarn at Squerryes LodgeBibury Oast House CottageBoundary Walls to Garden Shared by Little Rosings (Modern Bungalow) and Old RosingsBrewery CottagesBrewery HouseBrook HouseBrunswick HouseCarter's CrossChart's Edge CottagesChurch CottageChurch Gate HouseCobbled Courtyard at Back of Church Gate House and East Boundary WallCopthall CottageCorner CottageCorner CottageCottage Behind Quebec House to the NorthCottage in Yard to Rear of the Grasshopper Inn and Wall Linking Cottage with InnDale CottagesDuncan's CottagesFarthing Cottage Gunners CottageFormer Barn to Rear of the London Arts Vaults and Exchange LimitedFormer General Wolfe InnFormer The Olde House at Home Public HouseFront Garden Wall to South of Quebec HouseGarden Wall to South West of the VicarageGarden Wall to South of Farley and Wolfelands and Continuing East in Front of the Next PropertyGrosvenor House CottagesKirkgate CottageLittle StakesLockyer PlaceLych Gate and Front Wall to Moreton AlmshousesMill CottageMonks Way CottageMoreton AlmshousesMoretons, Great Moretons and Moretons EndNo 101 Including Former Stables Old Forge Including Former No 99Old Forge CottageOld Rose HouseOld TilesOuter Garden Walls to North, West and South of Westerham LodgePark CottagePitts CottageQuebec CottagesRosings Cottage, West Cottage and Moretons CottageSpring ArdensSpringfield Cottage SpringfieldsStakes Edge Stakes House the Stakes House Tea RoomsStatue of Sir Winston ChurchillThe BreachesThe Farm ShopThe George and Dragon HotelThe Grasshopper InnThe King's Arms HotelThe London Arts Vaults and Exchange Limited, Bank FlatThe Manse at Westerham Congregational ChurchThe PheasantryThe Red Cow HouseTudor CottageTwo K6 Telephone KiosksWall Along Entrance Drive to Squerryes LodgeWest Wall on Boundary of Property of Grasshopper InnWesterham Congregational ChurchWesterham LodgeWesterham War MemorialWhite HouseWinterton HouseWolfe CottagesYew Tree Cottage1, The Green1-4 Squerryes Park Cottages10, The Green11, The Green12, The Green13, The Green16, The Green18, Market Square18A, Market Square2 and 4, Market Square2, The Green22, Market Square24, Market Square26 and 28, Market Square3, Fuller's Hill3, The Green3-9, London Road43 and 45, London Road53 and 55, High Street7, Market Square9, Market Square9, The Green
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 100% of Westerham
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 HE129 ha
129 hain conservation areas, of 129 ha inside the built-up area.
102 of the 102 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 Westerham’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1975
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1975 · 571954 · 36
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The first 36 entries were listed in 1954, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 57 came in 1975, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 2 have been added in the last 15 years.
History Grade
Westerham grades A+ for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (114 points, 336 per 10,000 residents)More than 91% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (32%)More than 87% of UK towns
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.
Homes by age
32% of Westerham’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
24%
Before 1900
8%
1900–18
3.5%
1919–29
7.1%
1930s
8.4%
1945–54
16%
1955–64
8.7%
1965–72
3.2%
1973–82
2.9%
1983–92
7.9%
1993–99
4.7%
2000–08
1.7%
2009–15
3.6%
2016–25
WesterhamEngland & Wales
24% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, which added 16% 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 (15 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Born here
5 notable people born in Westerham before 1900
Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
Benjamin Hoadly
James Wolfe
Frederick Bosworth
Andrew George Board
John Cecil Currie
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James Wolfe1727–1759 · British Army officer (1727–1759)
Benjamin Hoadly1676–1761 · British bishop (1676-1761)
JC
John Cecil Currie1898–1944 · British Army officer
FB
Frederick Bosworth1825–1867 · English cricketer (1825-1867)
AB
Andrew George Board1878–1973 · British Army officer
Everyone born in Westerham → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Towns its size
Westerham has the 95th most Grade I buildings of 1,158 towns its size
Places of 2,000–5,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Westerham1
#72 of 1,158for listed buildings per resident (301 per 10,000). Sandwich, Chipping Campden and Wells-next-the-Sea lead.
94 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Westerham
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Westerham | 3,390 | 102 | 1 | A+ |
| Sundridge | 1,190 | 47 | 3 | A+ |
| Tatsfield | 1,379 | 1 | 0 | C− |
| Limpsfield | 2,247 | 41 | 2 | A |
| Oxted | 11,491 | 41 | 1 | B− |
| Marlpit Hill | 1,271 | 3 | 0 | C |
| Dunton Green | 3,241 | 2 | 0 | D |
| Edenbridge | 7,903 | 42 | 1 | B |
In brief
Westerham in brief
Few towns are as rich in listed heritage as Westerham: per resident it has more than 91% of UK towns. In all there are 102 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Quebec House. Its housing is old: 32% of homes date from before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. Only 94 of the 1,158 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings.
On The Green alone there are 9 listed buildings. A conservation area protects part of it. Most entries on the list, 68%, are houses, terraces and villas.
Questions about Westerham’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Westerham?
Historic England lists 102 buildings inside Westerham’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 10 Grade II* and 91 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Westerham?
One: Quebec House.
How many conservation areas are there in Westerham?
1, covering about 129 hectares of the town. The largest is No data available for publication by HE.
When were Westerham’s buildings listed?
The first in 1954; the most, 57, in 1975.
Who was born in Westerham?
Among people born before 1900: James Wolfe (1727), Benjamin Hoadly (1676), John Cecil Currie (1898), Frederick Bosworth (1825) and Andrew George Board (1878).
How old are the homes in Westerham?
32% of homes were built before 1919 and 43% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
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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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