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History of Bures · Historic England

54 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Historic England counts them inside Bures’s built-up area, 456 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 49 of Bures’s listed buildings. 34% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 3 of its listed buildings. Bures grades A+ for history.

1Grade I 4Grade II*

Listed buildings

456 per 10,000 residents

Grade I

exceptional interest

Grade II*

more than special interest

Scheduled monuments

nationally important sites

Homes built before 1919

34%

typical UK town 15%

In pictures

Landmarks of Bures

Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

Church of St Mary the VirginGrade I listed

Malthouse and Premises Occupied by W a Church (Bures) LtdGrade II* listed

The Old BakeryGrade 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 Bures’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.

54 listed buildings by grade

1 Grade I4 Grade II*49 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 Bures

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 Mary the Virgin, Bures St MaryOn the list as Church of St Mary the VirginPhoto: Bob Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0

Grade II*

The 4 Grade II* listed buildings in Bures

Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. 2 are photographed.

Church · listed 1953Malthouse and Premises Occupied by W a Church (Bures) LtdPhoto: Robert Edwards · CC BY-SA 2.0

House · listed 1973The Old BakeryPhoto: Bob Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0

House · listed 1953Great Bevills

Public · listed 1952Parsonage Hall

What’s protected

Most of Bures’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas39

Inns, shops & warehouses6

Churches, chapels & priories4

Public & civic buildings3

Walls, gates & bridges1

Memorials, crosses & tombs1

39 entries (72%) 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

49 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 49 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z

Angel Inn Barn Approximately 35 Metres North of Secretaries Farmhouse Barn to the North of Great Bevills Baytree House Blacksmiths Cottage Boat House Cottage the Boat House Bures Antiques Bures Baptist Church Bures House Chapel Cottages Coach House and Stable Block Approximately 10 Metres North of Secretaries Farmhouse Crown Junipers K6 Kiosk Outside Swan Public House Maynscroft and Maynscroft Cottage Newmans Old Forge House Outbuildings to the South West of the Vicarage Pear Tree Pilgrims Post Office Secretaries Farmhouse Spout House Spread Eagle Sunday School to Bures Baptist Church Tadworth Tanchin and Bondi The Cottage The Eight Bells Public House The Manse The Railway Maltings The Swan Public House The Vicarage The White House Tudor Cottage and Shop Wall of the White House War Memorial Water Lane Cottage White Horse House 1, Nayland Road 10, Bridge Street 11, Bridge Street 16 and 18, Station Hill 2-4, Nayland Road 20 and 22, Station Hill 3, Bridge Street 34 and 36, Water Lane 5-7, Nayland Road 8 and 9, Bridge Street

Conservation areas

2 conservation areas cover 63% of Bures

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

Bures St Mary 197323 ha

Bures Hamlet 196910 ha

33 hain conservation areas, of 53 ha inside the built-up area.

The first, Bures Hamlet, was designated in 1969; the newest, Bures St Mary, in 1973. 53 of the 54 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

22 of Bures’s 54 listed buildings were added in 1978

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

1978 · 221984 · 121982 · 6

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The first 2 entries were listed in 1952. 22 came in 1978, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

History Grade

Bures 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 (60 points, 507 per 10,000 residents)More than 88% of UK towns

Homes built before 1919 (34%)More than 89% 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

34% of Bures’s homes were built before 1919

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

32%

Before 1900

1.5%

1900–18

2.2%

1919–29

1930s

4.8%

1945–54

4.8%

1955–64

12%

1965–72

11%

1973–82

5.7%

1983–92

5.9%

1993–99

4.4%

2000–08

5.5%

2009–15

6.2%

2016–25

BuresEngland & Wales

32% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 12% 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 (6 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Towns its size

Bures has the 89th most Grade I buildings of 1,980 towns its size

Places of 1,000–2,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.

Dadford23

Bures1

#143 of 1,980for listed buildings per resident (456 per 10,000). Aberaeron, Beaumaris and Burford lead.

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

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Bures

Town	People	Listed	Grade I	History
Bures	1,183	54	1	A⁺
Sudbury	23,922	255	8	A⁻
Earls Colne	3,360	74	1	A
Great Horkesley	2,232	30	0	B
West Bergholt	3,175	11	0	C⁺
Eight Ash Green	1,769	4	0	C⁻
Great Waldingfield	1,377	20	0	B⁻
Halstead	13,902	130	1	A⁻

In brief

Bures in brief

Old houses are part of Bures’s character: 34% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 54 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. For its size, it has more listed heritage than 88% of UK towns.

Only 88 of the 1,980 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1969. Of the whole list, 72% are houses, terraces and villas.

Questions about Bures’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Bures?

Historic England lists 54 buildings inside Bures’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 4 Grade II* and 49 Grade II.

What are the Grade I listed buildings in Bures?

One: Church of St Mary the Virgin.

How many conservation areas are there in Bures?

2, covering about 33 hectares of the town. The largest are Bures St Mary and Bures Hamlet.

When were Bures’s buildings listed?

The first in 1952; the most, 22, in 1978.

How old are the homes in Bures?

34% of homes were built before 1919 and 41% 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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