9 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade II*

Church of St EdmundGrade II listedTown HallGrade II listedGolden Lion HotelGrade II listedHunstanton War MemorialGrade II listedThe LighthouseGrade II listed+5See 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.

c. 1890

c. 1890

c. 1890

1905

Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

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.

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.

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.

11% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1983–92, 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 (55 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Roger L'Estrange

Charles Fearon

Tiverton Preedy

Frank Southgate

Robert Herring

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Roger L'Estrange1616–1704 · English pamphleteer and author, and staunch defender of royalist clai…

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Frank Southgate1872–1916 · British painter (1872-1916)

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Charles Fearon1846–1876 · New Zealand cricketer

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Tiverton Preedy1863–1928 · Clergyman, football club founder (1863-1928)

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Robert Herring1896–1973 · British RAF and Army officer (1896–1973)

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

Old houses are part of Hunstanton’s character: 28% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 9 listed buildings, including Smithdon High School building. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1984. Roger L'Estrange (1616), Frank Southgate (1872) and Charles Fearon (1846) are among the 5 people born here before 1900. 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 the list grew between 1951 and 2019.