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History of Attleborough · Historic England
21 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
Historic England counts them inside Attleborough’s built-up area, 19 for every 10,000 residents. 20 of Attleborough’s listed buildings are Grade II. 8.6% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 4 of its listed buildings. Attleborough grades C for history: #34 of 51 in Norfolk.
Listed buildings
21
19 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
8.6%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Attleborough
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
The Griffin HotelGrade II listed
Attleborough Railway StationGrade II listed
Attleborough War MemorialGrade II listed+1See 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.
The map
Where Attleborough’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Grade I
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
0 of 7neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
21 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I0 Grade II*20 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 Grade I listed building in Attleborough
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.
What’s protected
Most of Attleborough’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas13
Inns, shops & warehouses3
Street furniture2
Public & civic buildings1
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
Churches, chapels & priories1
13 entries (62%) are houses, terraces and villas. 1 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 1 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
20 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 20 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
A E BushArosaAttleborough Railway StationAttleborough War MemorialBank CottageBarn 25 Metres South East of West FarmhouseCyprus HouseLamp Cottage and the HomesteadLushers CottagePillarStebbings Ironmongers and Cockings LimitedThe Doric RestaurantThe Griffin HotelThe Old Bear InnThe Thatched CottageVillage PumpWest FarmhouseWhite House1 High Street Attleborough comprising Unit one (also known as Nan Gibbon's Cottage and the Victorian Cottage) and Unit two (also known as Acorn Cottage)1 and 2, Prospect Avenue
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 7.8% of Attleborough
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Attleborough 197526 ha
26 hain conservation areas, of 332 ha inside the built-up area.
18 of the 21 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
10 of Attleborough’s 21 listed buildings were added in 1984
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1984 · 10
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The first 1 entry was listed in 1951. 10 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 2 have been added in the last 15 years.
History Grade
Attleborough 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 (23 points, 20 per 10,000 residents)More than 44% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (8.6%)More than 21% 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
8.6% of Attleborough’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
7.7%
Before 1900
0.9%
1900–18
0.9%
1919–29
1.1%
1930s
3%
1945–54
3.2%
1955–64
11%
1965–72
13%
1973–82
13%
1983–92
15%
1993–99
7.2%
2000–08
6.5%
2009–15
18%
2016–25
AttleboroughEngland & Wales
7.7% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2016–25, which added 18% 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 (78 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Towns its size
Attleborough has the 105th most Grade I buildings of 644 towns its size
Places of 7,000–18,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Attleborough1
#359 of 644for listed buildings per resident (19 per 10,000). Brecon, Malmesbury and Ludlow lead.
104 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Attleborough
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attleborough | 11,236 | 21 | 1 | C |
| Besthorpe | 1,007 | 2 | 0 | D |
| Hingham | 2,304 | 83 | 1 | A |
| East Harling | 2,490 | 26 | 1 | B+ |
| Wymondham | 16,334 | 145 | 3 | B |
| Griston | 1,361 | 4 | 1 | C− |
| Watton | 11,549 | 32 | 0 | C+ |
| Hethersett | 7,018 | 20 | 0 | C |
In brief
Attleborough in brief
The official list counts 21 listed buildings in Attleborough, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of St Mary. Only 104 of the 644 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1975.
Most entries on the list, 62%, are houses, terraces and villas. Its homes are mostly newer: 8.6% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and Edmund Rack (1735) was born here before 1900.
Questions about Attleborough’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Attleborough?
Historic England lists 21 buildings inside Attleborough’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 20 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Attleborough?
One: Church of St Mary.
How many conservation areas are there in Attleborough?
1, covering about 26 hectares of the town. The largest is Attleborough.
When were Attleborough’s buildings listed?
The first in 1951; the most, 10, in 1984.
How old are the homes in Attleborough?
8.6% of homes were built before 1919 and 11% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
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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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