Photo: habiloid · CC BY-SA 2.023 listed buildings
Historic England counts them inside Heacham’s built-up area, 58 for every 10,000 residents. Heacham’s listed buildings are all Grade II. We have photos of 4 of its listed buildings. 15% of its homes were built before 1919. Heacham grades B− for history: #22 of 51 in Norfolk.
Landmarks of Heacham
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Caley MillGrade II listed
Bridge over Loo Water on Line of Former Heacham-Hunstanton Road.Grade II listed
Church of St Mary the VirginGrade II listed
Holly LodgeGrade II listedPhotos 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.
Where Heacham’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
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.
Most of Heacham’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
14 entries (61%) are houses, terraces and villas. 2 are churches, chapels and priories.
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.
23 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 23 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
1 conservation area covers 4.9% of Heacham
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
18 of the 23 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.
More than half of Heacham’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1984
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
The first 3 entries were listed in 1953. 16 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Heacham grades B− for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all 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.
3 notable people born in Heacham before 1900
Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
Everyone born in Heacham → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Listed buildings in the places around Heacham
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heacham | 3,978 | 23 | 0 | B− |
| Hunstanton | 4,230 | 9 | 0 | B− |
| Snettisham | 2,709 | 21 | 0 | B+ |
| Dersingham | 4,753 | 7 | 1 | C |
| King's Lynn | 47,604 | 316 | 13 | A− |
| Gayton | 1,522 | 8 | 1 | B− |
| Clenchwarton | 2,020 | 3 | 0 | C− |
Heacham in brief
Heacham has 23 listed buildings, including Caley Mill. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1988. Of the whole list, 61% are houses, terraces and villas.
John Rolfe (1585), Charles Atmore (1759) and John Metcalfe (1891) were all born here before 1900. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1984: 16 of 23. The rest is about typical: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and 15% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.
Questions about Heacham’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Heacham?
Historic England lists 23 buildings inside Heacham’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 23 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Heacham?
1, covering about 12 hectares of the town. The largest is Heacham.
When were Heacham’s buildings listed?
The first in 1953; the most, 16, in 1984.
Who was born in Heacham?
Among people born before 1900: John Rolfe (1585), Charles Atmore (1759) and John Metcalfe (1891).
How old are the homes in Heacham?
15% of homes were built before 1919 and 22% 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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