Fighting Henry Public House · Photo: Stavros1 · CC BY 3.0

History of Holt · Historic England

112 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade II*

On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Holt’s built-up area, 279 for every 10,000 residents. We have photos of 6 of its listed buildings. 12% of its homes were built before 1919. Holt grades A− for history: #8 of 51 in Norfolk.

1Grade II*18on High Street

Listed buildings

112

279 per 10,000 residents

Grade I

exceptional interest

Grade II*

more than special interest

Scheduled monuments

nationally important sites

Homes built before 1919

12%

typical UK town 15%

In pictures

Holt in 6 photos

Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

Parish Church of St AndrewGrade II* listed

School HouseGrade II listed

Methodist ChurchGrade II listed

GreenwaysGrade II listed

Oddfellows' HallGrade II listed+1See 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.

The map

Where Holt’s history is

Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.

Grade II*

Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.

112 listed buildings by grade

0 Grade I1 Grade II*111 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 Holt

Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

Church · listed 1960Parish Church of St AndrewPhoto: Adrian S Pye · CC BY-SA 2.0

Historic streets

High Street has the most listed buildings

Streets by the listed entries with an address on them. One entry can be a whole terrace, so long rows count once.

High Street18 listed

Albert Street14 listed

Market Place14 listed

Bull Street7 listed

New Street6 listed

Fish Hill4 listed

Norwich Road4 listed

Station Road3 listed

Of the 112 entries, 78 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

What’s protected

Most of Holt’s listed buildings are homes

Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.

Houses, terraces & villas98

Inns, shops & warehouses5

Public & civic buildings4

Churches, chapels & priories2

Walls, gates & bridges1

Memorials, crosses & tombs1

Street furniture1

98 entries (88%) 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.

Grade II

111 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 111 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z

Bacon's House Barn Cottage Cranmer House Feathers Hotel Fighting Henry Public House Garden Wall Fronting No 41 Norwich Road Greenways Hanworth House High Silver Hill House Holt War Memorial Janaway House Kings Head Public House Lloyds Bank Methodist Church Milestone Nelson House Oddfellows' Hall Osokozi Pear Tree Cottage Praze Cottage Premises Occupied by Spar Foodmarket School Chapel School House Shrublands Signpost St John Hall The Grove The Nook The Shirehall Wansbeck House White Lion Public House Woodlands 1 and 3, Albert Street 1 and 3, Cross Street 1, Fish Hill 1, Market Place 1,3, And 5, Shirehall Plain 10, Market Place 11 and 13, Market Place 11, New Street 12, Albert Street 12, Market Place 12-18, Station Road 13 and 15, High Street 13, Cromer Road 13, Fish Hill 14, Albert Street 14, Market Place 16, Albert Street 16, New Street 17,19 and 21, Market Place 17-27, New Street 18 and 20, Albert Street 18, High Street 2 and 4, High Street 2, Market Place 20 and 22, High Street 21 and 23, High Street 23, Albert Street 23, Market Place 24, High Street 25 and 27, Albert Street 26 and 28, High Street 26, Albert Street 27 and 29, High Street 27 and 29, Norwich Road 27, Bull Street 27, Market Place 28 and 30, Albert Street 28, New Street 29, Albert Street 29, Cromer Road 3 and 3A, Market Place 3 and 5, Fish Hill 3, Bull Street 3, Church Street 3, Norwich Road 3,4,5 and 6, Chapel Yard 3-21, Pearsons Lane 31 and 33, Market Place 33, Albert Street 33, High Street 33, New Street 34 and 36, High Street 35, Market Place 35, New Street 37 and 39, Norwich Road 37, Bull Street 38,40 and 42, High Street 39, Bull Street 39, High Street 4 and 6, Station Road 4, Albert Street 4, Cross Street 45 and 47, Bull Street 46, High Street 48, High Street 49 and 49A, Bull Street 5, Market Place 5, Norwich Road 5-19, Albert Street 50, High Street 52, High Street 6 and 8, High Street 7,9,And 11, High Street 8, Albert Street 8, Bull Street 8, Fish Hill 8, Market Place 8, Station Road

Conservation areas

2 conservation areas cover 32% of Holt

Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.

Glaven Valley 198042 ha

Holt 197425 ha

67 hain conservation areas, of 208 ha inside the built-up area.

The first, Holt, was designated in 1974; the newest, Glaven Valley, in 1980. 108 of the 112 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 Holt’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1983

The year each building now on the list was first listed.

1983 · 81

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The first 7 entries were listed in 1952. 81 came in 1983, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

History Grade

Holt grades A− for history

Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.

Protected heritage, for its size and in all (113 points, 282 per 10,000 residents)More than 89% of UK towns

Homes built before 1919 (12%)More than 31% 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.

Born here

4 notable people born in Holt before 1900

Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.

Richard Gresham

John Gresham

Edmund Rogers

Robert Pilch

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Edmund Rogers1823–1910 · British journalist (1823-1910)

Robert Pilch1877–1957 · (1877-1957)

Richard Gresham1485–1549 · Lord Mayor of London, 1537

John Gresham1495–1556 · Lord Mayor of London, 1547

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

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Holt

Town	People	Listed	Grade I	History
Holt	4,014	112	0	A⁻
Briston	1,983	10	0	B⁻
Melton Constable	1,176	3	0	B⁻
Sheringham	7,087	4	0	C
West Runton and Beeston Regis	1,463	3	1	B
Cromer	7,522	85	1	A
Foulsham	1,025	28	1	A
Reepham	2,317	52	1	A

In brief

Holt in brief

Per resident, Holt has more listed heritage than 89% of UK towns. All told, the list holds 112 listed buildings, including Parish Church of St Andrew. High Street alone has 18 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1974.

Most entries on the list, 88%, are houses, terraces and villas. Edmund Rogers (1823), Robert Pilch (1877) and Richard Gresham (1485) are among the 4 people born here before 1900. The big year was 1983, when 81 of the 112 went on the list. Beyond that, like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; and 12% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.

Questions about Holt’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Holt?

Historic England lists 112 buildings inside Holt’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 111 Grade II.

Which street in Holt has the most listed buildings?

High Street (18), Albert Street (14) and Market Place (14) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.

How many conservation areas are there in Holt?

2, covering about 67 hectares of the town. The largest are Glaven Valley and Holt.

When were Holt’s buildings listed?

The first in 1952; the most, 81, in 1983.

Who was born in Holt?

Among people born before 1900: Edmund Rogers (1823), Robert Pilch (1877), Richard Gresham (1485) and John Gresham (1495).

How old are the homes in Holt?

12% of homes were built before 1919 and 17% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The National Heritage List for England is the official, up-to-date register of all nationally protected historic buildings and sites in England; check an entry on Historic England’s website before relying on it.

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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