IChurch · listed 1952Old St Andrew's ChurchOn the list as Old Parish Church of St AndrewPhoto: John Salmon · CC BY-SA 2.0
Sudbury Town Underground Station · Photo: Sunil060902 · CC BY-SA 3.0BHistory Grade
History of Brent · Historic England
98 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Brent’s built-up area, 2.9 for every 10,000 residents. Of the listed buildings in Brent, 89 are Grade II. 28% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 12 of its listed buildings. Brent grades B for history: #26 of 33 in London.
Listed buildings
98
2.9 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
8
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
4 registered parks & gardens
Homes built before 1919
28%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Brent in 16 photos
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Kensal Green (All Souls) CemeteryGrade I park or garden
Old Parish Church of St AndrewGrade I listed
Prince of Wales Public HouseGrade II listed
Bandstand in Queen's ParkGrade II listed
The Chapels at Paddington CemeteryGrade II listed+11See 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 Brent’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Grade IGrade II*Park or garden
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
48 of 184neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 99% were built before 1919.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
98 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I8 Grade II*89 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. Neighbourhood dots: the population-weighted centre of each Census 2021 output area, coloured by its neighbourhood’s (LSOA’s) share of homes built before 1919 (Valuation Office Agency, March 2025).
Grade I
The Grade I listed building in Brent
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 8 Grade II* listed buildings in Brent
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed.
II*Public · listed 1971Sudbury Town tube stationOn the list as Sudbury Town Underground StationPhoto: Sunil060902 · CC BY-SA 3.0
II*Church · listed 1974Church of All SoulsPhoto: Dr Neil Clifton · CC BY-SA 2.0
II*Church · listed 1951Church of St AndrewPhoto: Bernard Burns · CC BY-SA 3.0
II*Church · listed 1951Church of St MaryPhoto: Timothy Titus · CC BY 4.0
II*House · listed 1952Hundred Elms Farm OutbuildingPhoto: Hjamesberglen · CC BY-SA 4.0
II*House · listed 1980Gaumont State CinemaOn the list as Mecca BingoPhoto: Nathan from London, United Kingdom · CC BY-SA 2.0
II*Church · listed 1952New Parish Church of St AndrewPhoto: Matt Brown · CC BY 2.0
II*House · listed 1951The Old OxgatePhoto: Hjamesberglen · CC BY-SA 4.0
What’s protected
The largest group of Brent’s listed buildings is homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas47
Churches, chapels & priories23
Public & civic buildings10
Memorials, crosses & tombs7
Walls, gates & bridges5
Inns, shops & warehouses4
Street furniture2
47 entries (48%) are houses, terraces and villas. 23 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings.
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
89 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 89 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Alexandra TerraceBandstand in Queen's ParkBrent Town HallBrent ViaductBurial enclosures of Mayer, Juliana and Hannah Rothschild in Willesden Jewish Cemetery (United Synagogue Cemetery)Cambridge Hall, KilburnChest Tomb to Joseph Finch in St Andrews Old ChurchyardChrist ChurchChurch of Our Lady of WillesdenChurch of St AndrewChurch of St FrancisChurch of St GabrielChurch of St George and PresbyteryChurch of St JohnChurch of St MatthewChurch of St MichaelChurch of the AscensionChurch of the Holy InnocentsComplex of Funerary Buildings at Willesden Jewish Cemetery (United Synagogue Cemetery)Dollis Hill Synagogue and Forecourt RailingsE M Lander's Stonemasons ShowroomFront Boundary Wall and Lych Gate of St John's ChurchGarden Walls, Gates, Pergola of 2 Portland Stone Ionic Columns. Sundial on Portland Stone Ionic Columns at Barham Old CourtGatepiers Between Numbers 5/5A and 6/6A Old St Andrew's MansionsGoetze Grave in Paddington CemeteryGreen Man Public HouseHayland MidcotK6 Telephone KioskK6 Telephone Kiosk near Milman Road, Entrance to Queens ParkK8 Kiosk at Northwick Park StationKilburn Park Underground StationKingsbury ManorKingsley CourtMecca Bingo ClubMemorial sculpture group ‘to the memory of prisoners of war and victims of concentration camps 1914–1945’Monument to William Frederick Ashton in St Andrews Old ChurchyardNos. 3 and 3A-G and attached wall, railings and gate piersPrince of Wales Public HouseRoman Catholic Church of St JosephSt Andrew's Church SchoolSt Andrew's Presbyterian ChurchSt Andrew's VicarageSt Andrews Church HallStonebridge Park Public HouseStonebridge School, Including Former Caretaker's House, Playground Shelter and Cookery and Laundry to Nw, Former Manual Instruction Room and Playground Shelter to Se, And Boundary Walls, Gates and RailingsSummerhouse Approximately 10 Metres North of Kingsbury ManorThe Chapels at Paddington CemeteryThe GrangeThe Jubilee ClockThe Northern ColonnadeThree K6 telephone kiosksTomb of Max Eberstadt, Willesden Jewish Cemetery (United Synagogue Cemetery)Tomb of Rosalind FranklinTombstone to Edwin Austin Abbey in St Andrews Old ChurchyardTombstone to Henry Wetherilt in St Andrews Old ChurchyardTombstone to Thomas Raworth in St Andrews Old ChurchyardTombstone to Timothy Wetherilt in St Andrews Old ChurchyardTrough Outside Number 665War Memorial, Willesden Jewish CemeteryWembley Arena (Formerly the Empire Pool)Wembley Fire StationWembley Hill LodgeWillesden Green Underground StationWillesden Liberal Jewish Cemetery War MemorialWindermere Public House1,2,24 and 25, Cambridge Gardens NW61/1A-5/5A Old St Andrew's Mansions10, Cambridge Avenue NW610/10A Old St Andrew's Mansions105, 107 and 109, High Street11/11A-12/12A Old St Andrew's Mansions12-18, Cambridge Gardens NW612-26, Oxford Road NW6142, Slough Lane148, Slough Lane15-29, Princess Road18-56, Cambridge Avenue NW63 and 5, Buck Lane32-84, Princess Road NW645-67, Princess Road NW65 and 5A, Greville Place6/6A-7/7A Old St Andrew's Mansions61 and 63, Cambridge Road NW68/8A Old St Andrew's Mansions842, Harrow Road NW109,11 and 13, Princess Road NW69/9A Old St Andrew's Mansions96 and 98, Sudbury Court Road971-977, Harrow Road
Conservation areas
6 conservation areas cover 100% of Brent
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 HE4,070 ha
No data available for publication by HE2 ha
Queens Park Estate 19781 ha
Kensal Green Cemetery1 ha
St Johns Wood 19701 ha
St John's Wood 19671 ha
4,075 hain conservation areas, of 4,089 ha inside the built-up area.
The first, St John's Wood, was designated in 1967; the newest, Queens Park Estate, in 1978. 97 of the 98 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
Brent’s list has grown since 1951
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1979 · 111999 · 10
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 5 entries were listed in 1951. 11 came in 1979, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 11 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.
4 registered parks and gardens
Paddington CemeteryGrade II
Roundwood ParkGrade II
History Grade
Brent grades B 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, 3 per 10,000 residents)More than 48% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (28%)More than 81% 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
28% of Brent’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
21%
Before 1900
7.8%
1900–18
11%
1919–29
21%
1930s
2.5%
1945–54
2.2%
1955–64
2.8%
1965–72
3%
1973–82
3.3%
1983–92
2.9%
1993–99
5.6%
2000–08
5.1%
2009–15
12%
2016–25
BrentEngland & Wales
21% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was the 1930s, which added 21% 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 (191 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Born here
25 notable people born in Brent before 1900
The 20 best known on one timeline, earliest first.
Amelia Matilda Murray
Henry Cary
Lowes Cato Dickinson
Robert Romer
Everard Hambro
Flora Annie Steel
William Henry Perkin
Mabel Nicholas
Percy Dearmer
George Furness
Charles J. Finger
Herbert Hayman
Arthur Luxmoore
Dorothy Holman
Samuel Downing
Bertie Elkin
C. D. Broad
Wally Patch
Reginald Maxwell
Victor Goddard
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Dorothy Holman1883–1968 · British tennis player (1883–1968)
C. D. Broad1887–1971 · English philosopher (1887–1971)
Flora Annie Steel1847–1929 · British historian and writer (1847–1929)
WP
William Henry Perkin1860–1929 · English organic chemist (1860-1929)
WP
Wally Patch1888–1970 · English actor and comedian (1888–1953)
AM
Amelia Matilda Murray1795–1884 · English botanist, writer and courtier (1795–1884)
Lowes Cato Dickinson1819–1908 · English portrait painter (1819-1908)
Charles J. Finger1869–1941 · British-American writer and musician
Everyone born in Brent → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Brent
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brent | 340,611 | 98 | 1 | B |
| Ealing | 367,271 | 313 | 5 | B+ |
| Harrow | 260,534 | 270 | 4 | B− |
| Barnet | 388,572 | 639 | 2 | B+ |
| Camden | 209,342 | 1,889 | 58 | A+ |
| Kensington and Chelsea | 143,348 | 1,148 | 17 | A+ |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | 182,187 | 257 | 1 | A− |
| Westminster | 203,571 | 3,887 | 203 | A+ |
In brief
Brent in brief
More of Brent’s homes are old than in most places: 28% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 98 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Kensal Green (All Souls) Cemetery. Its older streets lie in 6 conservation areas, the first designated in 1967. Of the 25 people born here before 1900, the best known include Dorothy Holman (1883), C. D. Broad (1887) and Flora Annie Steel (1847). Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns.
Questions about Brent’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Brent?
Historic England lists 98 buildings inside Brent’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 8 Grade II* and 89 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Brent?
One: Old Parish Church of St Andrew.
How many conservation areas are there in Brent?
6, covering about 4,075 hectares of the town. The largest are No data available for publication by HE and No data available for publication by HE.
When were Brent’s buildings listed?
The first in 1951; the most, 11, in 1979.
Who was born in Brent?
Among people born before 1900: Dorothy Holman (1883), C. D. Broad (1887), Flora Annie Steel (1847), William Henry Perkin (1860) and Wally Patch (1888).
How old are the homes in Brent?
28% of homes were built before 1919 and 60% 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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