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History of Thurgarton · Historic England

6 listed buildings

On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Thurgarton’s built-up area, 135 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. 23% of its homes were built before 1919.

Listed buildings
6
135 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
1
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
23%
typical UK town 15%
The map

Where Thurgarton’s history is

Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.

Castle Hill, scheduled monument
Scheduled monument

Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.

6 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I0 Grade II*6 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

6 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 6 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 70% of Thurgarton

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

Thurgarton 198325 ha
25 hain conservation areas, of 35 ha inside the built-up area.

6 of the 6 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.

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.

Homes by age

23% of Thurgarton’s homes were built before 1919

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

22%
Before 1900
1.8%
1900–18
1.8%
1919–29
1.8%
1930s
8.2%
1945–54
9.9%
1955–64
16%
1965–72
5.8%
1973–82
4.1%
1983–92
8.2%
1993–99
9.9%
2000–08
1.8%
2009–15
8.2%
2016–25
ThurgartonEngland & Wales

22% 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 (7 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Thurgarton

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Thurgarton44560—
Lowdham1,84491B
Southwell7,4052202A
East Bridgford1,763191B+
Woodborough1,649160B
Calverton7,318150C−
Farndon2,472181C+
Farnsfield3,217280B
In brief

Thurgarton in brief

More of Thurgarton’s homes are old than in most places: 23% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 6 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1983. Beyond that, all its entries went on the list in 1986; and it also has a scheduled monument.

Questions about Thurgarton’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Thurgarton?

Historic England lists 6 buildings inside Thurgarton’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 6 Grade II.

Are there scheduled monuments in Thurgarton?

Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Castle Hill.

How many conservation areas are there in Thurgarton?

1, covering about 25 hectares of the town. The largest is Thurgarton.

How old are the homes in Thurgarton?

23% of homes were built before 1919 and 26% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Thurgarton 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.

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