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History of Coddenham · Historic England

Coddenham: 48% of homes built before 1919

For Coddenham, that is 3 times the typical town’s share, 15%. Historic England lists 18 buildings inside Coddenham’s built-up area, 288 for every 10,000 residents.

Listed buildings
18
288 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
2
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
48%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures

Landmarks of Coddenham

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 Coddenham’s history is

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

The Old Lodge and the Post Office, Grade II*Choppins Hill House, Grade IChurch of St Mary, Grade I
Grade IGrade II*

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

18 listed buildings by grade
2 Grade I1 Grade II*15 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 2 Grade I listed buildings in Coddenham

Buildings of exceptional interest, about 2.5% of all listed buildings. 1 is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.

Grade II*

The Grade II* listed building in Coddenham

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

Grade II

15 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 15 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 40% of Coddenham

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

Coddenham 197315 ha
15 hain conservation areas, of 37 ha inside the built-up area.

16 of the 18 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 Coddenham’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1955

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

1955 · 121987 · 5
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 12 entries were listed in 1955, 2 of the 2 Grade I buildings among them. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

Homes by age

48% of Coddenham’s homes were built before 1919

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

48%
Before 1900
0%
1900–18
3%
1919–29
1.9%
1930s
5.3%
1945–54
3%
1955–64
5.3%
1965–72
5.3%
1973–82
7.2%
1983–92
4.2%
1993–99
9.1%
2000–08
6%
2009–15
1.9%
2016–25
CoddenhamEngland & Wales

48% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2000–08, which added 9.1% 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 (3 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Coddenham

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Coddenham625182—
Great Blakenham2,18891C
Claydon3,140141C+
Needham Market5,0551021A−
Bramford2,335221B
Stowupland2,019180B−
Stowmarket21,5371381B+
Debenham2,294791A
In brief

Coddenham in brief

More of Coddenham’s homes are old than in most places: 48% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 18 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade I. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1973. The big year was 1955, when 12 of the 18 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: Arthur William Sidney Herrington (1891) and William Lummis (1886) were born here before 1900.

Questions about Coddenham’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Coddenham?

Historic England lists 18 buildings inside Coddenham’s built-up area: 2 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 15 Grade II.

What are the Grade I listed buildings in Coddenham?

2, including Choppins Hill House and Church of St Mary.

How many conservation areas are there in Coddenham?

1, covering about 15 hectares of the town. The largest is Coddenham.

When were Coddenham’s buildings listed?

The first in 1955; the most, 12, in 1955.

How old are the homes in Coddenham?

48% of homes were built before 1919 and 53% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Coddenham 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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