II*Church · listed 1960St Margaret's ChurchOn the list as Church of St MargaretPhoto: Jules & Jenny from Lincoln, UK · CC BY 2.0
Photo: Charlesdrakew · Public domain–Not graded
History of Lyng · Historic England
4 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade II*
Historic England counts them inside Lyng’s built-up area, 47 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 3 of Lyng’s listed buildings. 23% of its homes were built before 1919.
Listed buildings
4
47 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
23%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Lyng
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 Lyng’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.
4 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I1 Grade II*3 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 Lyng
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
Grade II
3 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 3 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 21% of Lyng
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Lyng 19758 ha
8 hain conservation areas, of 39 ha inside the built-up area.
4 of the 4 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.
Homes by age
23% of Lyng’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
22%
Before 1900
1.9%
1900–18
0.8%
1919–29
3.8%
1930s
3.8%
1945–54
2.7%
1955–64
8.4%
1965–72
21%
1973–82
6.5%
1983–92
8.4%
1993–99
10%
2000–08
3.8%
2009–15
7.6%
2016–25
LyngEngland & Wales
22% 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 (17 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Lyng
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lyng | 856 | 4 | 0 | — |
| Swanton Morley | 2,175 | 7 | 1 | C+ |
| Reepham | 2,317 | 52 | 1 | A |
| Mattishall | 2,203 | 23 | 2 | B |
| Foulsham | 1,025 | 28 | 1 | A |
| North Elmham | 1,172 | 15 | 2 | A− |
| Cawston | 1,114 | 15 | 1 | A− |
| Dereham | 20,788 | 105 | 1 | B |
In brief
Lyng in brief
Old houses are part of Lyng’s character: 23% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 4 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1975. Beyond that, the list grew between 1960 and 1984.
Questions about Lyng’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Lyng?
Historic England lists 4 buildings inside Lyng’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 3 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Lyng?
1, covering about 8 hectares of the town. The largest is Lyng.
How old are the homes in Lyng?
23% of homes were built before 1919 and 28% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Lyng has no History Grade.
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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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