IChurch · listed 1950Church of St PeterPhoto: Andrew Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0
The Greyhound Public House · Photo: Roger Templeman · CC BY-SA 2.0B−History Grade
History of Brackley · Historic England
76 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Brackley’s built-up area, 47 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. 6.8% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 7 of its listed buildings. Brackley grades B− for history: #17 of 31 in Northamptonshire.
Listed buildings
76
47 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
4
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
1
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
6.8%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Brackley in 7 photos
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Church of St PeterGrade I listed
Town HallGrade II* listed
Magdalen College Chapel of Saints John and JamesGrade II* listed
Brackley War MemorialGrade II listed
Crown HotelGrade II listed+2See all photosPhotos 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 Brackley’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Grade IGrade II*Scheduled monument
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
0 of 10neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
76 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I4 Grade II*71 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. 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).
Grade I
The Grade I listed building in Brackley
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 4 Grade II* listed buildings in Brackley
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. 3 are photographed.
II*Public · listed 1950Brackley Town HallOn the list as Town HallPhoto: Andrew Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0
II*Public · listed 1950Magdalen College Chapel of Saints John and JamesPhoto: Roger Templeman · CC BY-SA 2.0
II*Walls & gates · listed 1950Brackley Lodge (Including Gate Piers)Photo: mick finn · CC BY-SA 2.0
House · listed 195082-88, High Street
Historic streets
High Street has the most listed buildings
Streets by the listed entries with an address on them. One entry can be a whole terrace, so long rows count once.
High Street26 listed · 1 II*
Market Place15 listed
Bridge Street4 listed
Of the 76 entries, 48 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.
What’s protected
Most of Brackley’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas58
Public & civic buildings8
Inns, shops & warehouses5
Walls, gates & bridges2
Churches, chapels & priories2
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
58 entries (76%) are houses, terraces and villas. 2 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings.
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
71 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 71 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Barn adjacent to No 16, High Street, on westBelmanBrackley War MemorialCrown HotelEast HillFormer Stables, Manor House (Winchester House School)Garden Wall, Manor House (Winchester House School)Gateway, Manor House (Winchester House School)Magdalen College School South West BuildingMagdalen College School, Building to South of Chapel of Saints John and JamesManor House (Winchester House School)Manor House LodgePolice StationRed Lion HotelRose HavenStone Gateway Behind Number 13 and Adjoining Back Wing of Number 15The Bell InnThe Bell TowerThe Dobbins North BuildingThe Dobbins South BuildingThe Greyhound Public HouseThe Plough InnUnited Reformed ChurchVine Cottage1 and 3, Market Place1, Buckingham Road10, Market Place105 and 107, High Street109, High Street12, Market Place14, Market Place15 and 16, Church Road16 and 18, High Street16 and 18, Market Place2, Bridge Street20, High Street21, Market Place23-29, Market Place26 and 26A, High Street26 and 28, Bridge Street27 and 29, High Street28, High Street31, High Street32, Market Place33, High Street34 and 36, Market Place36, High Street38, Market Place4, Bridge Street4, High Street48 and 50, High Street48, High Street West5, High Street5, Market Place50, Market Place52, High Street56, High Street6 and 8, Bridge Street60, High Street65 and 67, High Street69, High Street7 and 7A, Market Place7, High Street8 and 10, High Street8, Market Place83, High Street87 and 89, High Street9, Market Place91 and 93, High Street95, High Street97 and 99, High Street
Conservation areas
2 conservation areas cover 7.8% of Brackley
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Brackley Town Centre26 ha
Brackley Old Town 20127 ha
33 hain conservation areas, of 415 ha inside the built-up area.
76 of the 76 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 Brackley’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1977
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1977 · 491950 · 22
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 22 entries were listed in 1950, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 49 came in 1977, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.
Monuments & landscapes
Monuments, parks and gardens
Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.
1 scheduled monument
Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.
History Grade
Brackley 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 (84 points, 52 per 10,000 residents)More than 69% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (6.8%)More than 15% 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.
Homes by age
6.8% of Brackley’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
5.7%
Before 1900
1.1%
1900–18
0.8%
1919–29
1.7%
1930s
2.9%
1945–54
2%
1955–64
10%
1965–72
13%
1973–82
12%
1983–92
20%
1993–99
5.2%
2000–08
4.5%
2009–15
20%
2016–25
BrackleyEngland & Wales
5.7% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1993–99, which added 20% 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 (0 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Born here
5 notable people born in Brackley before 1900
Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
Otho Holand
Edward Higham
Henry William Cave
Helen Farquhar
Sir Alexander Bannerman, 11th Baronet
13501500165018001950
Otho Holand1316–1359 · English soldier and Knight of the Garter
HF
Helen Farquhar1859–1953 · British numismatist
Edward Higham1846–1885 · Politician
HC
Henry William Cave1854–1913 · English photographer and publisher (1854–1913)
SB
Sir Alexander Bannerman, 11th Baronet1871–1934 · British aviation pioneer (1871–1934)
Everyone born in Brackley → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Towns its size
Brackley has the 102nd most Grade I buildings of 518 towns its size
Places of 10,000–26,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Brackley1
#162 of 518for listed buildings per resident (47 per 10,000). Ludlow, Bridport and Monmouth lead.
101 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Brackley
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brackley | 16,180 | 76 | 1 | B− |
| Croughton | 1,200 | 6 | 1 | B |
| Kings Sutton | 2,306 | 19 | 1 | B |
| Middleton Cheney | 4,127 | 39 | 1 | B |
| Silverstone | 2,542 | 14 | 0 | C+ |
| Adderbury and Twyford | 3,318 | 113 | 1 | A |
| Bodicote | 4,752 | 36 | 0 | B− |
| Buckingham | 14,296 | 189 | 2 | B+ |
In brief
Brackley in brief
Brackley has 76 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Church of St Peter. Only 101 of the 518 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. On High Street alone there are 26 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 2012.
Of the whole list, 76% are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 5 people born here before 1900, the best known include Otho Holand (1316), Helen Farquhar (1859) and Edward Higham (1846). Its homes are mostly newer: 6.8% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. The rest is about typical: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has a scheduled monument.
Questions about Brackley’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Brackley?
Historic England lists 76 buildings inside Brackley’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 4 Grade II* and 71 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Brackley?
One: Church of St Peter.
Which street in Brackley has the most listed buildings?
High Street (26), Market Place (15) and Bridge Street (4) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.
Are there scheduled monuments in Brackley?
Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Brackley motte and bailey castle.
How many conservation areas are there in Brackley?
2, covering about 33 hectares of the town. The largest are Brackley Town Centre and Brackley Old Town.
When were Brackley’s buildings listed?
The first in 1950; the most, 49, in 1977.
Who was born in Brackley?
Among people born before 1900: Otho Holand (1316), Helen Farquhar (1859), Edward Higham (1846), Henry William Cave (1854) and Sir Alexander Bannerman, 11th Baronet (1871).
How old are the homes in Brackley?
6.8% of homes were built before 1919 and 9.3% 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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