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History of Ketton · Historic England

89 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Ketton’s built-up area, 550 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 87 of Ketton’s listed buildings. 26% of its homes were built before 1919. Ketton grades A for history.

1Grade I 1Grade II*17on High Street

Listed buildings

550 per 10,000 residents

Grade I

exceptional interest

Grade II*

more than special interest

Scheduled monuments

nationally important sites

Homes built before 1919

26%

typical UK town 15%

In pictures

Landmarks of Ketton

Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

Church of St MaryGrade I listed

The PrioryGrade II* listed

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.

The map

Where Ketton’s history is

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

Grade IGrade II*

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

89 listed buildings by grade

1 Grade I1 Grade II*87 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 I

The Grade I listed building in Ketton

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.

Church · listed 1961Church of St MaryPhoto: Humphrey Bolton · CC BY-SA 2.0

Grade II*

The Grade II* listed building in Ketton

Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed.

Church · listed 1961The PrioryPhoto: Alan Murray-Rust · CC BY-SA 2.0

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 Street17 listed

Chapel Lane5 listed

Church Road3 listed

Redmiles Lane3 listed

Of the 89 entries, 33 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

What’s protected

Most of Ketton’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas72

Churches, chapels & priories4

Walls, gates & bridges4

Public & civic buildings3

Inns, shops & warehouses3

Memorials, crosses & tombs2

Street furniture1

72 entries (81%) are houses, terraces and villas. 4 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

87 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 87 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z

Aldgate Farmhouse Barn to the Priory Bridge over the River Chater Buckworth House Burnham House Merton Cottage Church House Custom Cottage Dovecote East of Geeston House Dovecote at Home Farm Dovecote at Manor Farm Dovecote at Waters Edge Emmanuel Cottage Garden Cottage Geeston House Grange House Jubilee Fountain K6 Telephone Kiosk Ketton Grange Ketton Hall Cottages Ketton War Memorial Lodge to Ketton Grange Manor Farmhouse Mill Cottage Number 3, Aldgate Number 3, Geeston Number 43 (Including Jacksons Store)Number 47, Aldgate Number 60 and Post Office Number 7, Aldgate Numbers 19-21, Grange Cottages and Attached Stable Numbers 4, 5 and 6, Aldgate Numbers 45 and 46, Aldgate Numbers 9 (The Old Barn Cottage) and Number 11 Orchard House Outbuildings to Geeston House Rosemary Cottage Rp Garage Rustic Villa Rutland House Spring House St Mary’s Congregational Hall Stable and Outbuilding to South of Numbers 19-21 Tansor House The Bakery The Chestnuts The Cottage The Gable House The Maltings The Mount The Railway Inn The Vale Wall to Ketton Hall Wall to Rear of Number 4 Wall to Rutland House 1 and 2, Stocks Hill 1 and 3, Chapel Lane 10, Chapel Lane 100, High Street 104, High Street 14 and 14A, Redmiles Lane 17 The Green 17 and 19, Bull Lane 17 and 19, Church Road 2, Bull Lane 2, Chapel Lane 2, Mill Lane 2, Redmiles Lane 23, Church Road 25, Church Road 27, High Street 29, High Street 31, High Street 35 and 37, High Street 39 and 41, High Street 4, Chapel Lane 4, Redmiles Lane 42, High Street 45, High Street 47, High Street 55, High Street 6 and 8, Chapel Lane 67, High Street 72, High Street 76, High Street 78, High Street 88, High Street 92, High Street

Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 21% of Ketton

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

Ketton 197232 ha

32 hain conservation areas, of 152 ha inside the built-up area.

82 of the 89 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

44 of Ketton’s 89 listed buildings were added in 1984

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

1984 · 441961 · 40

19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 40 entries were listed in 1961, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 44 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 2 have been added in the last 15 years.

History Grade

Ketton grades A for history

Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.

Protected heritage, for its size and in all (92 points, 569 per 10,000 residents)More than 91% of UK towns

Homes built before 1919 (26%)More than 75% 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

26% of Ketton’s homes were built before 1919

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

25%

Before 1900

1900–18

3.9%

1919–29

2.2%

1930s

8.4%

1945–54

8.3%

1955–64

14%

1965–72

13%

1973–82

1983–92

2.9%

1993–99

11%

2000–08

1.8%

2009–15

2016–25

KettonEngland & Wales

25% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 14% 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 (20 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Towns its size

Ketton has the 91st most Grade I buildings of 1,688 towns its size

Places of 1,000–3,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.

Ketton1

#58 of 1,688for listed buildings per resident (550 per 10,000). Aberaeron, Beaumaris and Burford lead.

90 have more. The typical town its size has 0.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Ketton

Town	People	Listed	Grade I	History
Ketton	1,618	89	1	A
Easton on the Hill	1,096	51	1	A⁺
Stamford	20,745	444	8	A
King's Cliffe	1,581	78	1	A⁺
Wittering	2,678	9	1	C⁻
Ryhall	1,444	18	1	B⁺
Barnack	1,007	56	1	A
Greetham	2,807	18	1	B⁺

In brief

Ketton in brief

Few towns are as rich in listed heritage as Ketton: per resident it has more than 91% of UK towns. In all there are 89 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. Its housing is old: 26% of homes date from before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. Only 90 of the 1,688 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings.

High Street alone has 17 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1972. Of the whole list, 81% are houses, terraces and villas. The rest is about typical: Charles Ormston Eaton (1827) and Henry Cronin (1894) were born here before 1900.

Questions about Ketton’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Ketton?

Historic England lists 89 buildings inside Ketton’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 87 Grade II.

What are the Grade I listed buildings in Ketton?

One: Church of St Mary.

Which street in Ketton has the most listed buildings?

High Street (17), Chapel Lane (5) and Church Road (3) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.

How many conservation areas are there in Ketton?

1, covering about 32 hectares of the town. The largest is Ketton.

When were Ketton’s buildings listed?

The first in 1961; the most, 44, in 1984.

How old are the homes in Ketton?

26% of homes were built before 1919 and 32% 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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