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History of Evenley · Historic England

19 listed buildings

On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Evenley’s built-up area, 325 for every 10,000 residents. Evenley’s listed buildings are all Grade II. 29% of its homes were built before 1919.

Listed buildings
19
325 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
29%
typical UK town 15%
The map

Where Evenley’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.

19 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I0 Grade II*19 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

19 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 19 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 27% of Evenley

Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.

Evenley 19688 ha
8 hain conservation areas, of 30 ha inside the built-up area.

18 of the 19 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 Evenley’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1969

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

1969 · 14
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 14 entries were listed in 1969. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

Homes by age

29% of Evenley’s homes were built before 1919

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

26%
Before 1900
3%
1900–18
0.8%
1919–29
0.8%
1930s
7.2%
1945–54
9.3%
1955–64
18%
1965–72
13%
1973–82
7.2%
1983–92
4.2%
1993–99
9.3%
2000–08
0.8%
2009–15
0%
2016–25
EvenleyEngland & Wales

26% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 18% 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 (7 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Evenley

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Evenley584190—
Brackley16,180761B−
Croughton1,20061B
Kings Sutton2,306191B
Middleton Cheney4,127391B
Adderbury and Twyford3,3181131A
Buckingham14,2961892B+
Upper Heyford2,48150C−
In brief

Evenley in brief

More of Evenley’s homes are old than in most places: 29% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 19 listed buildings. The Green alone has 10 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1968. The big year was 1969, when 14 of the 19 went on the list.

Questions about Evenley’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Evenley?

Historic England lists 19 buildings inside Evenley’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 19 Grade II.

How many conservation areas are there in Evenley?

1, covering about 8 hectares of the town. The largest is Evenley.

When were Evenley’s buildings listed?

The first in 1969; the most, 14, in 1969.

How old are the homes in Evenley?

29% of homes were built before 1919 and 31% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Evenley 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 · Historic England conservation areas (supplied by local planning authorities; October 2026). 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.