IChurch · listed 1959Church of St EdmundPhoto: Katy Walters · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: Ian Robertson · CC BY-SA 2.0BHistory Grade
History of Costessey · Historic England
30 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
Historic England counts them inside Costessey’s built-up area, 115 for every 10,000 residents. 29 of Costessey’s listed buildings are Grade II. 9.3% of its homes were built before 1919. Costessey grades B for history: #21 of 51 in Norfolk.
Listed buildings
30
115 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
9.3%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Costessey
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed, and the town before 1950. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
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.
Through time
Costessey in old photos
1 old photo or postcard, in date order. All public domain, made before 1950.
1914Public 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 Costessey’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade I
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
30 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I0 Grade II*29 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.
Grade I
The Grade I listed building in Costessey
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 Costessey’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas22
Churches, chapels & priories4
Walls, gates & bridges2
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
Street furniture1
22 entries (73%) are houses, terraces and villas. 4 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
29 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 29 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Church Farm BarnCostessey Park HouseCostessey Park KennelsCostessey War MemorialFern CottageGates and Gate Piers to No. 113No. 114 and Garden RailingsOur Lady and St Walstan RC ChurchRed Lion CottageRiverside HouseSt Mary's, Garden Wall, Gate and Gate PiersThatched CottageTombstone (10 Yards to South of Tower of Church of St Edmund)Trinity CottageTudor BarnU-Shaped Range of Barn, Single-Storeyed Connecting Structures, Stable Block and Byre to North of Costessey Park House100, The Street104, The Street115, 117 and 119, The Street124, West End136, West End138, 140 and 142, The Street50, West End52, 54, 56 and 58, West End70, West End72 and 74, West End80, The Street86, West End88, The Street
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 14% of Costessey
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Old Costessey 198017 ha
17 hain conservation areas, of 121 ha inside the built-up area.
19 of the 30 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
More than half of Costessey’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1983
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1983 · 26
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The first 1 entry was listed in 1959, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 26 came in 1983, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.
History Grade
Costessey grades B for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (32 points, 123 per 10,000 residents)More than 70% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (9.3%)More than 22% 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
9.3% of Costessey’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
8.2%
Before 1900
1.4%
1900–18
7%
1919–29
3.4%
1930s
1.1%
1945–54
10%
1955–64
21%
1965–72
21%
1973–82
6.7%
1983–92
9.5%
1993–99
3.1%
2000–08
3.4%
2009–15
4%
2016–25
CostesseyEngland & Wales
8.2% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1973–82, which added 21% 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 (6 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Towns its size
Costessey has the 94th most Grade I buildings of 1,291 towns its size
Places of 2,000–4,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Costessey1
#337 of 1,291for listed buildings per resident (115 per 10,000). Painswick, Chipping Campden and Wells-next-the-Sea lead.
93 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Costessey
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Costessey | 2,608 | 30 | 1 | B |
| Queen's Hills | 4,465 | 1 | 0 | D− |
| Taverham and Drayton | 14,989 | 15 | 1 | C− |
| Easton | 1,436 | 2 | 1 | D |
| Horsford | 4,396 | 7 | 0 | D |
| Little Melton | 1,049 | 3 | 0 | D |
| Norwich | 200,744 | 1,100 | 63 | A− |
| Horsham St Faith | 1,051 | 16 | 2 | B+ |
In brief
Costessey in brief
Costessey has 30 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of St Edmund. Only 93 of the 1,291 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1980. Most entries on the list, 73%, are houses, terraces and villas.
Its homes are mostly newer: 9.3% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. The big year was 1983, when 26 of the 30 went on the list. The rest is about typical: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns.
Questions about Costessey’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Costessey?
Historic England lists 30 buildings inside Costessey’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 29 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Costessey?
One: Church of St Edmund.
How many conservation areas are there in Costessey?
1, covering about 17 hectares of the town. The largest is Old Costessey.
When were Costessey’s buildings listed?
The first in 1959; the most, 26, in 1983.
Are there old photos of Costessey?
Yes: 1 public-domain photo or postcard from 1914 to 1914, all on this page.
How old are the homes in Costessey?
9.3% of homes were built before 1919 and 19% 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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