97 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade I

Church of St Michael the ArchangelGrade I listedSir Robert Hitcham's AlmshousesGrade II* listedThe MaltingsGrade II listedWhite Horse InnGrade II listedFramlingham CollegeGrade II listed+7See all photos

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.

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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.

Of the 97 entries, 44 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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.

The first 52 entries were listed in 1951, 1 of the 3 Grade I buildings among them. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

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.

Anglo-SaxonFramlingham Castle and its associated landscape including the mere, town ditch and Anglo-Saxon cemetery

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.

23% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2016–25, which added 21% 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 (15 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk

Thomas Danforth

Nicholas Revett

Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet

Edwin Edwards

Randolph Isham Stow

Francis Amhurst

Frederick Bird

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Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk1320–1399 · British noble

Nicholas Revett1720–1804 · British architect (1720–1804)

Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet1820–1904 · British surgeon and polymath (1820–1904)

Edwin Edwards1823–1879 · English painter and engraver (1823-1879)

FB

Frederick Bird1875–1965 · English cricketer (1875-1965)

TD

Thomas Danforth1623–1699 · Deputy governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, Salem witch trial judge

Randolph Isham Stow1828–1878 · Politician and judge in South Australia (1828-1878)

Francis Amhurst1842–1881 · Australian politician and solicitor

Everyone born in Framlingham → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

More of Framlingham’s homes are old than in most places: 23% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 97 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade I. Per resident, it has more listed heritage than 90% of UK towns. Its Grade I buildings cluster together: 3 of them stand within 400 m of Framlingham Castle.

Only 22 of the 1,073 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. Double Street alone has 13 listed buildings. A conservation area protects part of it. Beyond that, it also has a scheduled monument.