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History of Boxford · Historic England

67 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Boxford’s built-up area, 804 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 65 of Boxford’s listed buildings. 33% of its homes were built before 1919.

1Grade I 1Grade II*21on Swan Street

Listed buildings

804 per 10,000 residents

Grade I

exceptional interest

Grade II*

more than special interest

Scheduled monuments

nationally important sites

Homes built before 1919

33%

typical UK town 15%

In pictures

Landmarks of Boxford

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

Church of St MaryGrade I listed

The Fleece HotelGrade 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 Boxford’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.

67 listed buildings by grade

1 Grade I1 Grade II*65 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 Boxford

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 1958Church of St MaryPhoto: Robert Edwards · CC BY-SA 2.0

Grade II*

The Grade II* listed building in Boxford

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

Inns & shops · listed 1958The Fleece HotelPhoto: Robert Edwards · CC BY-SA 2.0

Historic streets

Swan 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.

Swan Street21 listed

Church Street4 listed

Ellis Street4 listed

Broad Street3 listed

Of the 67 entries, 33 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

What’s protected

Most of Boxford’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas54

Inns, shops & warehouses5

Public & civic buildings3

Churches, chapels & priories2

Walls, gates & bridges1

Street furniture1

Memorials, crosses & tombs1

54 entries (81%) 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

65 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 65 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z

Barn Immediately South East of Goodlands Farmhouse Belsize the Close Boxford House Bridge House and Boxford Stores Commerce House Dovecote to the North of Parsonage Farmhouse Edwardstone Almshouses Graham House Greenbank Hendrick House Hillside Rosalee K6 Telephone Kiosk Kemball House Knollgate Old Gaol Parsonage Farmhouse Penn Cottage and The Old Castle House Peyton House Riverhall Riverside House Sunny Bank Swan Inn The Maltings The Old Chequers The Old Forge The Old Manse The Old School House United Reformed Church Victoria Cottage War Memorial in St Marys Churchyard White Hart Inn Wynne House 1 and 3, Church Street 11 and 13 Swan Street 12 Swan Street 12 and 14, Broad Street 13, Church Street 15 Swan Street 15, Church Street 16 and 18, Ellis Street 16-20 Swan Street 18 and 20, Broad Street 19 Swan Street 2 and 4 Broad Street 2 and 4 Swan Street 22 Swan Street 22, 24 and 26, Ellis Street 24 Swan Street 26 Swan Street 27 Swan Street 28 and 30 Swan Street 3 and 5, Swan Street 31 and 33 Swan Street 34 Swan Street 35 Swan Street 37 and 39 Swan Street 4 and 6, Butcher's Lane 40 and 42 Swan Street 41 Swan Street 43 and 45 Swan Street 47, Swan Street 5, Church Street 6, Ellis Street 7 Swan Street 8 and 10, Ellis Street

Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 53% of Boxford

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

Boxford 197327 ha

27 hain conservation areas, of 51 ha inside the built-up area.

67 of the 67 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 Boxford’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1980

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

1980 · 351958 · 28

19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 28 entries were listed in 1958, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 35 came in 1980, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

Homes by age

33% of Boxford’s homes were built before 1919

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

31%

Before 1900

0.8%

1900–18

2.7%

1919–29

3.7%

1930s

6.4%

1945–54

1.9%

1955–64

23%

1965–72

5.6%

1973–82

3.7%

1983–92

3.7%

1993–99

4.5%

2000–08

3.7%

2009–15

9.3%

2016–25

BoxfordEngland & Wales

31% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 23% 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 (4 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Boxford

Town	People	Listed	Grade I	History
Boxford	833	67	1	—
Great Waldingfield	1,377	20	0	B⁻
Hadleigh	8,638	230	4	A
Acton	1,666	13	1	C⁺
Sudbury	23,922	255	8	A⁻
Bures	1,183	54	1	A⁺
Bildeston	1,096	71	0	A⁺
Lavenham	1,224	196	13	A⁺

In brief

Boxford in brief

More of Boxford’s homes are old than in most places: 33% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 67 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. Swan Street alone has 21 listed buildings.

A conservation area has protected part of it since 1973. Of the whole list, 81% are houses, terraces and villas. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1980: 35 of 67.

Questions about Boxford’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Boxford?

Historic England lists 67 buildings inside Boxford’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 65 Grade II.

What are the Grade I listed buildings in Boxford?

One: Church of St Mary.

Which street in Boxford has the most listed buildings?

Swan Street (21), Church Street (4) and Ellis Street (4) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.

How many conservation areas are there in Boxford?

1, covering about 27 hectares of the town. The largest is Boxford.

When were Boxford’s buildings listed?

The first in 1958; the most, 35, in 1980.

How old are the homes in Boxford?

33% of homes were built before 1919 and 39% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Boxford 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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