267 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Grovelands Park Hospital (Original Block Only)Grade I listedChurch of St Andrew Enfield Parish ChurchGrade II* listedYe Old Cherry Tree InnGrade II listedOld Police StationGrade II listedChurch of St John the BaptistGrade II listed+23See 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.

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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 267 entries, 51 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 11 entries were listed in 1950. 128 came in 1974, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 5 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.

5 registered parks and gardens

Broomfield HouseGrade II

Forty HallGrade II

Grovelands ParkGrade II*

Myddelton HouseGrade II

Trent 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.

11% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was the 1930s, which added 28% 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 (38 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Brook Taylor

Isaac D'Israeli

Leigh Hunt

Robert Taylor

Charles Cowden Clarke

John Biscoe

Henry Walker

Francis Walker

Frederick Hitch

Kate Marsden

Edward Augustus Bowles

Nesta Helen Webster

Bernard Bosanquet

Dudley Benjafield

Alfred Guillaume

Frank Mann

Daril Watson

Sid Crowl

Percy Barton

Denys Hill

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Brook Taylor1685–1732 · English mathematician (1685–1731)

Leigh Hunt1784–1859 · British critic, essayist, poet and writer (1784-1859)

Isaac D'Israeli1766–1848 · British writer (1766–1848)

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John Biscoe1794–1843 · English mariner and explorer (1794–1843)

Francis Walker1809–1874 · English entomologist (1809–1874)

Nesta Helen Webster1876–1960 · British far-right author (1876–1960)

Kate Marsden1859–1931 · British nurse (1859–1931)

Dudley Benjafield1887–1957 · British racing driver (1887–1957)

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

More of Enfield’s homes are old than in most places: 23% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 267 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Arnos Grove tube station. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas.

Most entries on the list, 50%, are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 77 people born here before 1900, the best known include Brook Taylor (1685), Leigh Hunt (1784) and Isaac D'Israeli (1766). Beyond that, per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has 2 scheduled monuments.