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B−History Grade
History of Great Waldingfield · Historic England

20 listed buildings

Historic England counts them inside Great Waldingfield’s built-up area, 145 for every 10,000 residents. Great Waldingfield’s listed buildings are all Grade II. 10% of its homes were built before 1919. Great Waldingfield grades B− for history.

Listed buildings
20
145 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
10%
typical UK town 15%
The map

Where Great Waldingfield’s history is

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

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

20 listed buildings by grade
0 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.

What’s protected

Most of Great Waldingfield’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas17
Public & civic buildings2
Inns, shops & warehouses1

17 entries (85%) are houses, terraces and villas.

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
How the list grew

More than half of Great Waldingfield’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1978

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

1978 · 14
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The first 1 entry was listed in 1961. 14 came in 1978, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

History Grade

Great Waldingfield grades B− for history

Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.

Protected heritage, for its size and in all (20 points, 145 per 10,000 residents)More than 66% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (10%)More than 26% 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.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Great Waldingfield

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Great Waldingfield1,377200B−
Acton1,666131C+
Sudbury23,9222558A−
Long Melford3,8951842A+
Lavenham1,22419613A+
Glemsford3,693371A−
Bures1,183541A+
Bildeston1,096710A+
In brief

Great Waldingfield in brief

The official list counts 20 listed buildings in Great Waldingfield. Most entries on the list, 85%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1978, when 14 of the 20 went on the list. The rest is about typical: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and 10% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.

Questions about Great Waldingfield’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Great Waldingfield?

Historic England lists 20 buildings inside Great Waldingfield’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 20 Grade II.

When were Great Waldingfield’s buildings listed?

The first in 1961; the most, 14, in 1978.

How old are the homes in Great Waldingfield?

10% of homes were built before 1919 and 13% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

© 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. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.