133 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Wanstead ParkGrade II* park or gardenValentines MansionGrade II* listedNewbury Park Station Bus ShelterGrade II listedThe Castle HotelGrade II listedThe Old Court HouseGrade II listed+11See 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.

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 133 entries, 24 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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 20 entries were listed in 1954, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 48 came in 1979, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 10 have been added in the last 15 years.

3 registered parks and gardens

City of London CemeteryGrade I

Valentines ParkGrade II

Wanstead 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.

8.5% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was the 1930s, which added 24% 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 (130 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Robert Taylor

Sydney Smith

Arthur West Haddan

Charles Tilston Bright

Louisa Martindale

Harriet Roberta Kerr

George Atherton Aitken

Cyril Buxton

Robert Kindersley, 1st Baron Kindersley

Ada Evans

Charles Bressey

Lynn Fontanne

Stanley Morison

Cecil Jenkinson

Percy Richardson

Bernard Ashmole

Lydia Sokolova

Ruth Pitter

Sidney Bernstein, Baron Bernstein

Jack Gentry

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Lynn Fontanne1887–1983 · British actress (1887–1983)

Sydney Smith1771–1845 · English wit, writer, Anglican cleric (1771-1845)

Stanley Morison1889–1967 · Type designer (1889–1967)

Charles Tilston Bright1832–1888 · British engineer and politician (1832-1888)

Lydia Sokolova1896–1974 · British dancer (1896–1974)

Robert Taylor1714–1788 · English architect and sculptor (1714–1788)

Harriet Roberta Kerr1859–1940 · British suffragette

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Bernard Ashmole1894–1988 · British archaeologist and art historian (1894–1988)

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

Old houses are part of Redbridge’s character: 27% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 133 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of St Mary. Its older streets lie in 17 conservation areas, the first designated in 1970. Of the 45 people born here before 1900, the best known include Lynn Fontanne (1887), Sydney Smith (1771) and Stanley Morison (1889). Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns.