145 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade I

Market CrossGrade I listedBecket’s ChapelGrade I listedQueen's Head HotelGrade II listedWymondham South Junction Signal BoxGrade II listedThe BridewellGrade II listed+3See 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. 1903

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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. Neighbourhood dots: the population-weighted centre of each Census 2021 output area, coloured by its neighbourhood’s (LSOA’s) share of homes built before 1919 (Valuation Office Agency, March 2025).

Of the 145 entries, 79 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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.

The first 62 entries were listed in 1950, 3 of the 3 Grade I buildings among them. 68 came in 1972, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 2 have been added in the last 15 years.

2 scheduled monuments

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.

Market cross

Wymondham Abbey

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.

7% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2016–25, which added 22% 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 (24 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Francis Kett

James Kemp

George Clarke

John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley

Al Thake

Frank Milburn Howlett

Harry Daniels

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John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley1826–1902 · British diplomat (1826-1902)

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Francis Kett1547–1589 · English priest (1547-1589)

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Al Thake1849–1872 · Major League Baseball player (1849–1872)

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George Clarke1798–1875 · New Zealand missionary, teacher, public servant, politician, judge (1…

Frank Milburn Howlett1877–1920 · Entomologist

Harry Daniels1884–1953 · Recipient of the Victoria Cross (1884–1953)

James Kemp1797–1872 · New Zealand missionary (1797-1872)

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

Per resident, Wymondham has more listed heritage than 81% of UK towns. All told, the list holds 145 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade I. Its Grade I buildings cluster together: 3 of them stand within 400 m of Wymondham Abbey. Only 35 of the 517 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings.

On Damgate Street alone there are 24 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1974. Most entries on the list, 79%, are houses, terraces and villas. The rest is about typical: it also has 2 scheduled monuments.