917 listed buildings, 6 of them Grade I

Royal Festival HallGrade I listedWestminster BridgeGrade II* listedNo 1 gasholder, Kennington Lane Gasholder StationGrade II listedWATERLOO STATION (Victory Arch)Grade II listedThe Kings Arms Public HouseGrade II listed+64See 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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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).

Brixton Road SW926 listed

Clapham Road SW925 listed

Kennington Road SE1125 listed

Groveway SW918 listed

Camberwell New Road SE513 listed

Kennington Lane SE1112 listed · 1 II*

Vassall Road SW912 listed

Lansdowne Gardens SW811 listed

Stockwell Park Road SW911 listed

Lambeth Road10 listed

Lillieshall Road SW410 listed

Stockwell Green SW910 listed

Of the 917 entries, 490 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 27 entries were listed in 1951, 2 of the 6 Grade I buildings among them. 480 came in 1981, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 32 have been added in the last 15 years.

7 registered parks and gardens

Brockwell ParkGrade II

Kennington ParkGrade II

Lambeth PalaceGrade II

Myatt's FieldsGrade II

Ruskin ParkGrade II

ST MICHAEL'S CONVENT (formerly PARK HILL)Grade II

West Norwood Cemetery and CrematoriumGrade 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.

37% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was the 1930s, which added 11% 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 (1,419 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Catherine Howard

John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford

John Nash

James Sowerby

Arthur Helps

Hablot Knight Browne

George Grove

John Alexander Reina Newlands

F. H. Bradley

Annie Besant

Josiah Conder

Edith Nesbit

John Burns

Francis Bourne

Cecil Hepworth

Edward Thomas

Arnold Bax

Bernard Montgomery

Claude Rains

Wheeler Dryden

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Bernard Montgomery1887–1976 · British Army officer (1887–1976)

Annie Besant1847–1933 · British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and o…

Catherine Howard1524–1542 · Fifth wife of Henry VIII of England

Claude Rains1889–1967 · British actor (1889–1967)

Edith Nesbit1858–1924 · English author and poet (1858–1924)

John Alexander Reina Newlands1837–1898 · British chemist who did work concerning the periodicity of elements

John Nash1752–1835 · British architect (1752–1835)

F. H. Bradley1846–1924 · British philosopher (1846–1924)

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

More of Lambeth’s homes are old than in most places: 40% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 917 listed buildings, 6 of them Grade I, including Lambeth Palace. Its older streets lie in 62 conservation areas, the first designated in 1968. Most entries on the list, 62%, are houses, terraces and villas.

Bernard Montgomery (1887), Annie Besant (1847) and Catherine Howard (1524) are among the 300 people born here before 1900. The big year was 1981, when 480 of the 917 went on the list. Beyond that, per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns.