II*Walls & gates · listed 1951Alma House Including Boundary Walls to North and SouthPhoto: Stephen Richards · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: Geographer · CC BY-SA 2.0B+History Grade
History of Ditchingham · Historic England
10 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade II*
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Ditchingham’s built-up area, 50 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 2 scheduled monuments. 26% of its homes were built before 1919. Ditchingham grades B+ for history.
Listed buildings
10
50 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
2
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
26%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Ditchingham
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. 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.
The map
Where Ditchingham’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade II*Scheduled monument
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
10 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I1 Grade II*9 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 II*
The Grade II* listed building in Ditchingham
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
Grade II
9 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.
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 4.8% of Ditchingham
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Ditchingham 19944 ha
4 hain conservation areas, of 82 ha inside the built-up area.
7 of the 10 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 Ditchingham’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1998
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1998 · 7
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The first 2 entries were listed in 1951. 7 came in 1998. Only 0 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.
History Grade
Ditchingham 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 (15 points, 75 per 10,000 residents)More than 53% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (26%)More than 76% 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
26% of Ditchingham’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
24%
Before 1900
2.2%
1900–18
1.6%
1919–29
8.3%
1930s
4.3%
1945–54
6.9%
1955–64
7.6%
1965–72
11%
1973–82
7.9%
1983–92
5.6%
1993–99
2.5%
2000–08
10%
2009–15
8%
2016–25
DitchinghamEngland & Wales
24% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1973–82, 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 (6 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Ditchingham
In brief
Ditchingham in brief
More of Ditchingham’s homes are old than in most places: 26% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 10 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1994. The big year was 1998, when 7 of the 10 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and Sir John Hobart, 3rd Baronet (1628) and Henry Jollye (1841) were born here before 1900.
Questions about Ditchingham’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Ditchingham?
Historic England lists 10 buildings inside Ditchingham’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 9 Grade II.
Are there scheduled monuments in Ditchingham?
Yes, 2 scheduled monuments, including Earthwork on Broome Heath and Long barrow and round barrows on Broome Heath.
How many conservation areas are there in Ditchingham?
1, covering about 4 hectares of the town. The largest is Ditchingham.
When were Ditchingham’s buildings listed?
The first in 1951; the most, 7, in 1998.
How old are the homes in Ditchingham?
26% of homes were built before 1919 and 36% 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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