339 listed buildings, 4 of them Grade I

Bromley CollegeGrade I listedWickham CourtGrade I listedThe Royal Watermen's and Lightermen's Asylum (46 almshouses)Grade II listedOdeon Cinema and Regal BallroomGrade II listedThe Bull Public HouseGrade II listed+26See all photos

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.

1909

c. 1914

Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

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).

Of the 339 entries, 64 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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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.

The first 1 entry was listed in 1951. 153 came in 1973, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 26 have been added in the last 15 years.

2 scheduled monuments

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

RomanOrpington Roman villa

RomanRomano-British masonry building and Saxon cemetery, Fordcroft, Orpington

4 registered parks and gardens

Crystal Palace ParkGrade II*

Holwood ParkGrade II

Priory Gardens, OrpingtonGrade II

Sundridge ParkGrade II

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.

Nicholas Bacon

Francis Walsingham

George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland

George Grote

Philip Norman

Horace Darwin

Tom Pettitt

Percival Parr

Florence Farr

H. G. Wells

Bernard Cracroft Aston

Wilfred Baddeley

Herbert Baddeley

Lilian Snelling

Malcolm Campbell

George Hilsdon

F. Tennyson Jesse

Cecil Harcourt

Charles Langbridge Morgan

Carl Erhardt

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H. G. Wells1866–1946 · English writer (1866–1946)

Francis Walsingham1532–1590 · English spy, diplomat and politician (1532-1590)

Malcolm Campbell1885–1948 · English racing driver and speed record holder (1885–1948)

George Grote1794–1871 · English historian and political radical (1794–1871)

George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland1784–1849 · British politician (1784-1849)

Wilfred Baddeley1872–1929 · Tennis player and sports administrator (1872–1929)

Herbert Baddeley1872–1931 · Tennis and badminton player (1872–1931)

Charles Langbridge Morgan1894–1958 · British writer (1894-1958)

Everyone born in Bromley → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

The official list counts 339 listed buildings in Bromley, 4 of them Grade I, including Crystal Palace National Sports Centre. On High Street alone there are 14 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 50 conservation areas, the first designated in 1971.

Of the whole list, 60% are houses, terraces and villas. H. G. Wells (1866), Francis Walsingham (1532) and Malcolm Campbell (1885) are among the 98 people born here before 1900. Beyond that, per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; it also has 2 scheduled monuments; and 17% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.