II*Church · listed 1955Church of St LeonardPhoto: Bob Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: Bob Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
History of Horringer · Historic England
26 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade II*
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Horringer’s built-up area, 341 for every 10,000 residents. 25 of Horringer’s listed buildings are Grade II. 19% of its homes were built before 1919.
Listed buildings
26
341 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
1 registered park or garden
Homes built before 1919
19%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Horringer
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 Horringer’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade II*Park or garden
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
26 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I1 Grade II*25 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 II*
The Grade II* listed building in Horringer
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
What’s protected
Most of Horringer’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas19
Walls, gates & bridges2
Public & civic buildings2
Churches, chapels & priories1
Street furniture1
Inns, shops & warehouses1
19 entries (73%) are houses, terraces and villas. 1 are churches, chapels and priories.
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
25 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 25 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Anne Corders CottageAshdown CottageCedar CottageEntrance Gates, Gatepiers and Railings to Ickworth ParkHighlandsHorringer ManorK6 Telephone Kiosk, HorringerKing William Cottage the Post OfficeMansard HouseMulberry CottagePark GatesPheasant CottagePrimary School and School HouseRose CottageSycamoresThe Beehive Public HouseThe CottageThe CottageThe Cottage, 1 the GildhallThe ForgeThe GablesThe GreenThe LaurelsWeavers Cottages1, 2 and 3 the Gildhall
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 61% of Horringer
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Horringer 197322 ha
22 hain conservation areas, of 37 ha inside the built-up area.
26 of the 26 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 Horringer’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1983
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1983 · 21
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The first 3 entries were listed in 1955. 21 came in 1983, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have 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 registered park or garden
Ickworth HouseGrade II*
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Horringer
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Horringer | 763 | 26 | 0 | — |
| Bury St Edmunds | 41,279 | 732 | 26 | A− |
| Barrow | 1,961 | 17 | 0 | B− |
| Great Barton | 1,848 | 16 | 0 | C+ |
| Thurston | 3,009 | 13 | 0 | C |
| Kentford | 1,124 | 8 | 0 | B− |
| Glemsford | 3,693 | 37 | 1 | A− |
| Ixworth | 2,296 | 76 | 2 | A− |
In brief
Horringer in brief
The official list counts 26 listed buildings in Horringer. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1973. Most entries on the list, 73%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1983, when 21 of the 26 went on the list. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1758) and Melmoth Hall (1811) were born here before 1900; and 19% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.
Questions about Horringer’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Horringer?
Historic England lists 26 buildings inside Horringer’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 25 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Horringer?
1, covering about 22 hectares of the town. The largest is Horringer.
When were Horringer’s buildings listed?
The first in 1955; the most, 21, in 1983.
How old are the homes in Horringer?
19% of homes were built before 1919 and 24% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Horringer 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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