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The church of St Peter and St Paul, WorthPhoto: Nick Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0
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History of Worth · Historic England

21 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade II*

On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Worth’s built-up area, 300 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. 29% of its homes were built before 1919.

Listed buildings
21
300 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
1
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
29%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures

Landmarks of Worth

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 Worth’s history is

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

Romano-Celtic temple and Iron Age site S of Worth, scheduled monumentChurch of St Peter and St Paul, Grade II*
Grade II*Scheduled monument

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

21 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I1 Grade II*20 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 Grade II* listed building in Worth

Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

What’s protected

Most of Worth’s listed buildings are homes

Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.

Houses, terraces & villas13
Walls, gates & bridges3
Churches, chapels & priories3
Inns, shops & warehouses1
Memorials, crosses & tombs1

13 entries (62%) are houses, terraces and villas. 3 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

20 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 20 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 100% of Worth

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 HE48 ha
48 hain conservation areas, of 48 ha inside the built-up area.

21 of the 21 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

9 of Worth’s 21 listed buildings were added in 1987

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

1987 · 91963 · 5
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 1 entry was listed in 1952. 9 came in 1987, 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

29% of Worth’s homes were built before 1919

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

17%
Before 1900
12%
1900–18
7.3%
1919–29
9.8%
1930s
3.7%
1945–54
11%
1955–64
12%
1965–72
7.3%
1973–82
3.7%
1983–92
2.4%
1993–99
2.4%
2000–08
0%
2009–15
11%
2016–25
WorthEngland & Wales

17% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1900–18, 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 (12 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Worth

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Worth701210—
Sandwich4,2584397A+
Eastry2,388453A
Ash (Dover)2,529651A+
Deal28,9923700A+
Cliffs End1,28410D−
Eythorne1,487230B
Kingsdown1,68710C−
In brief

Worth in brief

More of Worth’s homes are old than in most places: 29% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 21 listed buildings. A conservation area protects part of it. Of the whole list, 62% are houses, terraces and villas. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: William Hannam Henderson (1845) was born here before 1900; and it also has a scheduled monument.

Questions about Worth’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Worth?

Historic England lists 21 buildings inside Worth’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 20 Grade II.

Are there scheduled monuments in Worth?

Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Romano-Celtic temple and Iron Age site S of Worth.

How many conservation areas are there in Worth?

1, covering about 48 hectares of the town. The largest is No data available for publication by HE.

When were Worth’s buildings listed?

The first in 1952; the most, 9, in 1987.

How old are the homes in Worth?

29% of homes were built before 1919 and 45% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Worth 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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