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History of Tacolneston · Historic England

31 listed buildings

On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Tacolneston’s built-up area, 391 for every 10,000 residents. Every listed building in Tacolneston is Grade II. 22% of its homes were built before 1919.

Listed buildings
31
391 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
22%
typical UK town 15%
The map

Where Tacolneston’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.

31 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I0 Grade II*31 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.

What’s protected

Most of Tacolneston’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas30
Inns, shops & warehouses1

30 entries (97%) are houses, terraces and villas.

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

31 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 31 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
How the list grew

More than half of Tacolneston’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1981

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

1981 · 28
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The first 2 entries were listed in 1951. 28 came in 1981, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

Homes by age

22% of Tacolneston’s homes were built before 1919

Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).

21%
Before 1900
0.8%
1900–18
1.7%
1919–29
4%
1930s
3.1%
1945–54
5.6%
1955–64
16%
1965–72
14%
1973–82
8.8%
1983–92
3.1%
1993–99
9.6%
2000–08
4%
2009–15
7.9%
2016–25
TacolnestonEngland & Wales

21% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 16% 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 (6 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Tacolneston

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Tacolneston792310—
Long Stratton5,218461B
Mulbarton3,807100C−
Newton Flotman1,41860C
Wymondham16,3341453B
Besthorpe1,00720D
Attleborough11,236211C
Hethersett7,018200C
In brief

Tacolneston in brief

More of Tacolneston’s homes are old than in most places: 22% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 31 listed buildings. Most entries on the list, 97%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1981, when 28 of the 31 went on the list.

Questions about Tacolneston’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Tacolneston?

Historic England lists 31 buildings inside Tacolneston’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 31 Grade II.

When were Tacolneston’s buildings listed?

The first in 1951; the most, 28, in 1981.

How old are the homes in Tacolneston?

22% of homes were built before 1919 and 28% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Tacolneston has no History Grade.

© 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. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.