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History of Fornham All Saints · Historic England

21 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Historic England counts them inside Fornham All Saints’s built-up area, 262 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. 4.8% of its homes were built before 1919.

Listed buildings
21
262 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
1
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
4.8%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures

Landmarks of Fornham All Saints

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 Fornham All Saints’s history is

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

Sites NW and SE of Fornham All Saints, scheduled monumentChurch of All Saints, Grade I
Grade IScheduled monument

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

21 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I0 Grade II*20 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 Fornham All Saints

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 Fornham All Saints’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas12
Walls, gates & bridges4
Churches, chapels & priories2
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
Public & civic buildings1
Inns, shops & warehouses1

12 entries (57%) 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

20 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 20 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 57% of Fornham All Saints

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

Fornham All Saints 199924 ha
24 hain conservation areas, of 42 ha inside the built-up area.

20 of the 21 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 Fornham All Saints’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1985

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

1985 · 131955 · 6
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 6 entries were listed in 1955, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 13 came in 1985, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

Monuments & landscapes

Monuments, parks and gardens

Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.

1 scheduled monument

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.

Homes by age

4.8% of Fornham All Saints’s homes were built before 1919

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

4.8%
Before 1900
0%
1900–18
0%
1919–29
1.4%
1930s
3%
1945–54
3.6%
1955–64
6.9%
1965–72
9.5%
1973–82
10%
1983–92
1%
1993–99
1%
2000–08
0.4%
2009–15
58%
2016–25
Fornham All SaintsEngland & Wales

4.8% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2016–25, which added 58% 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 Fornham All Saints

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Fornham All Saints801211—
Bury St Edmunds41,27973226A−
Great Barton1,848160C+
Thurston3,009130C
Barrow1,961170B−
Ixworth2,296762A−
Kentford1,12480B−
Red Lodge5,77100D−
In brief

Fornham All Saints in brief

The official list counts 21 listed buildings in Fornham All Saints, 1 of them Grade I. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1999. Most entries on the list, 57%, are houses, terraces and villas.

Its homes are mostly newer: 4.8% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. The big year was 1985, when 13 of the 21 went on the list. The rest is about typical: it also has a scheduled monument.

Questions about Fornham All Saints’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Fornham All Saints?

Historic England lists 21 buildings inside Fornham All Saints’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 20 Grade II.

What are the Grade I listed buildings in Fornham All Saints?

One: Church of All Saints.

Are there scheduled monuments in Fornham All Saints?

Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Sites NW and SE of Fornham All Saints.

How many conservation areas are there in Fornham All Saints?

1, covering about 24 hectares of the town. The largest is Fornham All Saints.

When were Fornham All Saints’s buildings listed?

The first in 1955; the most, 13, in 1985.

How old are the homes in Fornham All Saints?

4.8% of homes were built before 1919 and 6.2% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Fornham All Saints 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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