IChurch · listed 1955Church of St Helen and St GilesPhoto: Max Naylor · Public domain
Church of St Helen and St Giles · Photo: Max Naylor · Public domainCHistory Grade
History of Havering · Historic England
108 listed buildings, 5 of them Grade I
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Havering’s built-up area, 4.2 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 2 scheduled monuments. 4.9% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 19 of its listed buildings and 2 old views of the town. Havering grades C for history.
Listed buildings
108
4.2 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
5
exceptional interest
Grade II*
12
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
2
1 registered park or garden
Homes built before 1919
4.9%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Havering in 22 photos and old views
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed, and the town before 1950. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
The Bower HouseGrade I listed
The Royal Liberty SchoolGrade II* listed
The King's Head InnGrade II listed
Sub Station of Essex Water CompanyGrade II listed
Havering Town HallGrade II listed+17See 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.
Through time
Havering from 1819 to 1905
2 old photos and postcards, in date order. All public domain, made before 1950.
c. 1819
c. 1905Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.
The map
Where Havering’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Grade IGrade II*Scheduled monumentPark or garden
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
2 of 154neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 53% were built before 1919.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
108 listed buildings by grade
5 Grade I12 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. 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 5 Grade I listed buildings in Havering
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.
IHouse · listed 1952Bower HouseOn the list as The Bower HousePhoto: Derek Voller · CC BY-SA 2.0
IChurch · listed 1955Church of St Laurence, UpminsterOn the list as Church of St LaurencePhoto: Richard Portsmouth · CC BY-SA 2.0
IChurch · listed 1955St Andrew's Church, HornchurchOn the list as Parish Church of St AndrewPhoto: Lonpicman · CC BY-SA 3.0
IHouse · listed 1952Stable Block at the Bower HousePhoto: Derek Voller · CC BY-SA 2.0
Grade II*
The 12 Grade II* listed buildings in Havering
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. 11 are photographed.
II*Public · listed 1979Hare HallOn the list as The Royal Liberty SchoolPhoto: Stephen Richards · CC BY-SA 2.0
II*House · listed 1955Bretons HouseOn the list as BretonsPhoto: Glyn Baker · CC BY-SA 2.0
II*Walls & gates · listed 1955Forecourt Railings, Gates and Piers Walls and Vases at Rainham HallPhoto: Ethan Doyle White · CC BY-SA 4.0
II*House · listed 1955High House FarmhousePhoto: Trevor Harris · CC BY-SA 2.0
II*Church · listed 1952Parish Church of St Edward the ConfessorPhoto: Richard Hoare · CC BY-SA 2.0
II*Public · listed 1955Rainham HallPhoto: ㇹヮィㇳ · CC BY 2.0
II*Public · listed 1955The Lodge at Rainham HallPhoto: Ethan Doyle White · CC BY-SA 4.0
II*House · listed 1952The Round HousePhoto: diamond geezer · CC BY-SA 2.0
II*Public · listed 1955Upminster HallPhoto: Hjamesberglen · CC0
II*House · listed 1955Upminster WindmillPhoto: Michael Roots · CC BY 3.0
II*Walls & gates · listed 1955Wrought Iron Screen and Gates with Piers at BretonsPhoto: Hjamesberglen · CC BY-SA 4.0
Public · listed 1955Stable Block at Rainham Hall
What’s protected
Most of Havering’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas60
Public & civic buildings18
Churches, chapels & priories12
Walls, gates & bridges7
Inns, shops & warehouses6
Memorials, crosses & tombs4
Street furniture1
60 entries (56%) are houses, terraces and villas. 12 are churches, chapels and priories, including 3 of the 5 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
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
Black's BridgeBlue Boar HallBms InsuranceBower Farm CottageCapel NelmesChurch HouseChurch of St AndrewChurch of St Edward The Confessor, Roman Catholic ChurchChurch of St John the EvangelistChurch of St ThomasCoal Duty Boundary MarkerCoal Duty Boundary PostCoal Duty Boundary Post Outside Numbers 98 and 100 on West Side of RoadCollier Row StoneConvent of the Sacred Heart of MaryDury FallsEntrance Piers and Gates to Upminster CourtFairykytes (Havering Art Centre)Footbridge to Rear of Numbers 52 and 54Frances Bardsley Lower SchoolGazebo and Bath House at LangtonsGreat SunningsHall of St Leonard's Children's HomeHarwwood HallHavering Town HallHolly Tree CottageHornchurch War MemorialIngrebourne CottagesIvy HoltK6 Telephone Kiosk, Outside the Bell Public HouseK6 telephone kiosk outside The Clock HouseLangtonsMeadow CottagesMill Cottage (To South West of Church of St Andrew)Numbers 215, 215A and 217 (Vine Cottage)Old Keepers CottageOrangery at LangtonsOrchard CottagesPage's FarmhouseQueens TheatreRailway FactoryRainham War MemorialRange of barns and outbuildings forming a quadrangle at Page's FarmhouseRedburyRomford War MemorialRose CottageRose CottagesSalem ChapelSecond World War, Upminster Report Centre, including a gas cleansing station and other civil defence buildingsSections of Boundary Wall, Railings, Gates and Gate Piers to Former Gidea HallSouth Hall FarmhouseStable Block at LangtonsStable Block at Upminster CourtSub Station of Essex Water CompanySullen's FarmhouseSundial Infront of Number 36TadlowsThatched CottageThe Clock HouseThe Coffee PotThe Golden Lion the Golden Lion Public HouseThe Grange, Harold Wood HospitalThe King's Head InnThe Lamb Public HouseThe Morris Dancer Public HouseThe Old AnchorThe Old CottageThe RectoryThe Rom SkateparkThe Ship Public HouseThe VicarageTwo Brick Barns and Garden Walls to South of BretonsUpminster CourtUpminster Old ChapelUpminster War MemorialWall and Gate Piers to Rainham Hall Between Number 15 and 37Well Tower at Tower LodgeWykham Cottage1-5, The Green1-8, Harwood Hall Lane16, Meadway195, High Street197, High Street2-8, Upminster Road South201, Corbets Tey Road265 and 267, St Marys Lane27, Meadway36 and 38, Reed Pond Walk41, Heath Drive43, Heath Drive64 Heath Drive
Conservation areas
10 conservation areas cover 3% of Havering
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Gidea Park78 ha
Havering-atte-Bower19 ha
Cranham 196818 ha
St Andrew's Church, Hornchurch 201014 ha
Corbets Tey10 ha
Langtons, Hornchurch 20108 ha
Rainham5 ha
Romford4 ha
St Leonard's, Hornchurch 19843 ha
RAF Hornchurch 19891 ha
159 hain conservation areas, of 5,228 ha inside the built-up area.
The first, Cranham, was designated in 1968; the newest, Langtons, Hornchurch, in 2010. 55 of the 108 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
41 of Havering’s 108 listed buildings were added in 1979
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1979 · 411955 · 20
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 6 entries were listed in 1952, 2 of the 5 Grade I buildings among them. 41 came in 1979, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 7 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.
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.
1 registered park or garden
Upminster CourtGrade II
History Grade
Havering grades C for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (135 points, 5 per 10,000 residents)More than 51% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (4.9%)More than 9% 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
4.9% of Havering’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
1.7%
Before 1900
3.3%
1900–18
3.6%
1919–29
32%
1930s
15%
1945–54
13%
1955–64
7.3%
1965–72
5.1%
1973–82
3.6%
1983–92
2%
1993–99
4.5%
2000–08
4.5%
2009–15
4%
2016–25
HaveringEngland & Wales
1.7% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was the 1930s, which added 32% 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 (220 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Born here
14 notable people born in Havering before 1900
Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
Elizabeth Hoby
Francis Quarles
William Daldy
Francis Francis
Mary Benton
Alfred Bennett Bamford
Stephen Charles
Fred Pelly
Arthur Surridge Hunt
Richard William Bailey
Harry Reeve
Hugh Wagstaff
Ralph Curtis
Leslie Robinson
1500165018001950
Francis Quarles1592–1644 · English poet
Arthur Surridge Hunt1871–1934 · English papyrologist and egyptologist (1871–1934)
Elizabeth Hoby1528–1609 · English noblewoman
FP
Fred Pelly1868–1940 · English footballer (1868-1940)
FF
Francis Francis1852–1926 · English cricketer (1852-1926)
AB
Alfred Bennett Bamford1857–1939 · Painter (1857–1939)
SC
Stephen Charles1858–1950 · English first-class cricketer and British Army officer (1858-1950)
HW
Hugh Wagstaff1895–1970 · Cricketer (1895-1970)
Everyone born in Havering → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Havering
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Havering | 259,401 | 108 | 5 | C |
| Barking and Dagenham | 218,236 | 39 | 3 | C− |
| Chigwell Row | 2,115 | 18 | 0 | C+ |
| Aveley | 9,364 | 7 | 1 | D |
| South Ockendon | 22,441 | 8 | 1 | D |
| Redbridge | 309,509 | 133 | 1 | B |
| West Horndon | 1,648 | 0 | 0 | D− |
| Brentwood | 55,339 | 114 | 0 | B− |
In brief
Havering in brief
Havering has 108 listed buildings, 5 of them Grade I, including Church of St Helen and St Giles. Its older streets lie in 10 conservation areas, the first designated in 1968. Most entries on the list, 56%, are houses, terraces and villas.
Of the 14 people born here before 1900, the best known include Francis Quarles (1592), Arthur Surridge Hunt (1871) and Elizabeth Hoby (1528). Its homes are mostly newer: 4.9% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. The rest is about typical: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has 2 scheduled monuments.
Questions about Havering’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Havering?
Historic England lists 108 buildings inside Havering’s built-up area: 5 Grade I, 12 Grade II* and 91 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Havering?
5, including Church of St Helen and St Giles, Church of St Laurence, Parish Church of St Andrew, Stable Block at the Bower House and The Bower House.
Are there scheduled monuments in Havering?
Yes, 2 scheduled monuments, including Dagnam Park Farm moated site, Noak Hill, Romford and Medieval grange barn, 228m south-east of Upminster Court.
How many conservation areas are there in Havering?
10, covering about 159 hectares of the town. The largest are Gidea Park and Havering-atte-Bower.
When were Havering’s buildings listed?
The first in 1952; the most, 41, in 1979.
Are there old photos of Havering?
Yes: 2 public-domain photos and postcards from 1819 to 1905, all on this page.
Who was born in Havering?
Among people born before 1900: Francis Quarles (1592), Arthur Surridge Hunt (1871), Elizabeth Hoby (1528), Fred Pelly (1868) and Francis Francis (1852).
How old are the homes in Havering?
4.9% of homes were built before 1919 and 41% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
© 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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