IInns & shops · listed 1951Scole InnPhoto: Adrian S Pye · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: David Howard · CC BY-SA 2.0B+History Grade
History of Scole · Historic England
17 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
Historic England counts them inside Scole’s built-up area, 164 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 15 of Scole’s listed buildings. 17% of its homes were built before 1919. Scole grades B+ for history.
Listed buildings
17
164 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
17%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Scole
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 Scole’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade IGrade II*
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
17 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I1 Grade II*15 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 I
The Grade I listed building in Scole
Buildings of exceptional interest, about 2.5% of all listed buildings. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
Grade II*
The Grade II* listed building in Scole
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed.
II*Church · listed 1959Church of St AndrewPhoto: John Salmon · CC BY-SA 2.0
Grade II
15 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 15 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Barn Immediately North-West of Street FarmhouseCrossways RestraurantGable End, Beam Ends and Three WaysHigh HouseLodge FarmhouseMill Building Immediately North of Mill HouseScole War MemorialShingle HouseSt Edmunds LodgeStables Immediately North-West of Scole InnStreet FarmhouseThatchetWillow House1-4, Diss Road5, Diss Road
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 24% of Scole
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Scole 199411 ha
11 hain conservation areas, of 46 ha inside the built-up area.
12 of the 17 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 Scole’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1981
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1981 · 12
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The first 1 entry was listed in 1951, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 12 came in 1981, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.
History Grade
Scole 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 (20 points, 193 per 10,000 residents)More than 69% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (17%)More than 51% 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.
Towns its size
Scole has the 86th most Grade I buildings of 2,085 towns its size
Places of 1,000–2,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Scole1
#748 of 2,085for listed buildings per resident (164 per 10,000). Aberaeron, Beaumaris and Burford lead.
85 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Scole
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scole | 1,037 | 17 | 1 | B+ |
| Diss | 9,599 | 160 | 1 | A− |
| Dickleburgh | 1,166 | 35 | 1 | A |
| Eye | 2,211 | 140 | 3 | A+ |
| Roydon (South Norfolk) | 1,117 | 10 | 1 | C+ |
| Stradbroke | 1,190 | 41 | 0 | A |
| Harleston | 5,077 | 131 | 0 | A− |
| Gislingham | 1,172 | 29 | 1 | A |
In brief
Scole in brief
Scole has 17 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. Only 85 of the 2,085 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1994. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1981: 12 of 17. Beyond that, per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; William Gooderham, Sr. (1790) was born here before 1900; and 17% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.
Questions about Scole’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Scole?
Historic England lists 17 buildings inside Scole’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 15 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Scole?
One: Scole Inn.
How many conservation areas are there in Scole?
1, covering about 11 hectares of the town. The largest is Scole.
When were Scole’s buildings listed?
The first in 1951; the most, 12, in 1981.
How old are the homes in Scole?
17% 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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