IChurch · listed 1955Church of St MaryPhoto: Chris Stafford · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: Alan Murray-Rust · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
History of Morcott · Historic England
Old homes in Morcott: 44% built before 1919
The typical town has 15%: Morcott has 3 times the share. Historic England lists 30 buildings inside Morcott’s built-up area, 929 for every 10,000 residents.
Listed buildings
30
929 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
44%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Morcott
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
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 Morcott’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade I
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
30 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I0 Grade II*29 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 Morcott
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.
What’s protected
Most of Morcott’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas19
Walls, gates & bridges5
Churches, chapels & priories2
Street furniture2
Public & civic buildings2
19 entries (63%) 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
29 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 29 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Barn and Granary to Rear of Number 25Barns to Rear of Numbers 1 and 5Coach House and Walls to Old Rectory GroundFarmbuildings Behind Firdale HouseFirdale HouseHolly HouseK6 Telephone Kiosk to the East of Junction with Willoughby RoadMorcott Hall SchoolPart of SchoolPriory FarmhouseRailings Outside Firdale HouseSundial HouseSycamore HouseThe Manor HouseThe Old RectoryWall and Gate to Firdale HouseWall and Gate to Morcott Hall GroundWall and Piers to Manor House GroundsWall to ChurchyardWalnut Tree Farmhouse1 and 5, Church Lane16, High Street17, Church Lane17, High Street19-23, High Street25, High Street3 and 5, High Street3, Pingle Lane9 and 9A, High Street
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 78% of Morcott
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Morcott 198118 ha
18 hain conservation areas, of 23 ha inside the built-up area.
30 of the 30 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 Morcott’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1984
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1984 · 221955 · 7
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The first 7 entries were listed in 1955, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 22 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Homes by age
44% of Morcott’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
44%
Before 1900
2%
1900–18
2%
1919–29
4%
1930s
7.3%
1945–54
2%
1955–64
9.3%
1965–72
11%
1973–82
4%
1983–92
6%
1993–99
4%
2000–08
2%
2009–15
2%
2016–25
MorcottEngland & Wales
44% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1973–82, which added 11% 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 (5 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Morcott
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morcott | 323 | 30 | 1 | — |
| Uppingham | 4,272 | 105 | 1 | A |
| Ketton | 1,618 | 89 | 1 | A |
| Gretton | 1,519 | 41 | 1 | A |
| King's Cliffe | 1,581 | 78 | 1 | A+ |
| Easton on the Hill | 1,096 | 51 | 1 | A+ |
| Oakham | 12,159 | 121 | 5 | B+ |
| Weldon | 3,042 | 51 | 1 | B |
In brief
Morcott in brief
Old houses are part of Morcott’s character: 44% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 30 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1981. Of the whole list, 63% are houses, terraces and villas. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1984: 22 of 30.
Questions about Morcott’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Morcott?
Historic England lists 30 buildings inside Morcott’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 29 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Morcott?
One: Church of St Mary.
How many conservation areas are there in Morcott?
1, covering about 18 hectares of the town. The largest is Morcott.
When were Morcott’s buildings listed?
The first in 1955; the most, 22, in 1984.
How old are the homes in Morcott?
44% of homes were built before 1919 and 50% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Morcott has no History Grade.
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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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