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History of Ixworth · Historic England

76 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade I

On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Ixworth’s built-up area, 331 for every 10,000 residents. 72 of Ixworth’s listed buildings are Grade II. We have photos of 4 of its listed buildings. 15% of its homes were built before 1919. Ixworth grades A− for history.

2Grade I 2Grade II*21on High Street

Listed buildings

331 per 10,000 residents

Grade I

exceptional interest

Grade II*

more than special interest

Scheduled monuments

nationally important sites

Homes built before 1919

15%

typical UK town 15%

In pictures

Landmarks of Ixworth

Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

Church of St MaryGrade I listed

Ixworth AbbeyGrade I listed

Dover House and Garden Wall Adjoining on WestGrade II* listed

Stable to Pickerel InnGrade II* listed

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 Ixworth’s history is

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

Grade IGrade II*

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

76 listed buildings by grade

2 Grade I2 Grade II*72 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 Ixworth

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.

Church · listed 1950Church of St MaryPhoto: Robert Edwards · CC BY-SA 2.0

Church · listed 1955Ixworth AbbeyPhoto: Bob Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0

Grade II*

The 2 Grade II* listed buildings in Ixworth

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

Walls & gates · listed 1983Dover House and Garden Wall Adjoining on WestPhoto: Michael Dibb · CC BY-SA 2.0

Inns & shops · listed 1955Stable to Pickerel InnPhoto: Michael Dibb · CC BY-SA 2.0

What’s protected

Most of Ixworth’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas59

Churches, chapels & priories6

Walls, gates & bridges4

Inns, shops & warehouses4

Memorials, crosses & tombs2

Public & civic buildings1

59 entries (78%) are houses, terraces and villas. 6 are churches, chapels and priories, including 2 of the 2 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

72 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 72 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z

Barn South East to Dover House Barns to the North of Dairy Farm Beech Cottage Bridge Farm Cottages Bridge Farmhouse Cosycot Cross House Crown House Dairy Farmhouse Giffords Hill House Holmlea Ixworth War Memorial Mulley's Motorways and House Nos. 12-14, HIGH STREET Office and Two Outbuildings Adjoining Cyder House Orchard Cottage Park House Priory Cottage Priory Farmhouse Priory Lodge and Outbuildings Saddlers Seamans Dairies Shambles Smithy to South of Holmlea Stable, coachhouse and linking wall to the Beeches Stables to Number 78 Stayer Cottage Summer House to Stayer Cottage The Beeches The Blooms The Crown Public House The Cyder House The Elms The Langridge The Nook The Old Vicarage The Old Woolpack Public House The Pickerel Inn The Priory The Robert Peel Guest House The Round House The White House Three Links Tudor Cottage Warrens General Store Woolpack Cottage 1 and 2, Stow Road 10, High Street 15, High Street 16, High Street 17, High Street 18, High Street 19, High Street 20 and 22, High Street 23 and 25, High Street 24, High Street 26-30, High Street 3 and 4, Stow Road 32, High Street 40 and 42, High Street 48, High Street 5 and 6, Stow Road 52, High Street 53, High Street 54 and 56, High Street 59, High Street 68, High Street 7 and 8, Stow Road 70, High Street 72, High Street 78, High Street

Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 36% of Ixworth

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

Ixworth 197329 ha

29 hain conservation areas, of 81 ha inside the built-up area.

76 of the 76 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 Ixworth’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1983

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

1983 · 581955 · 9

19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 1 entry was listed in 1950, 1 of the 2 Grade I buildings among them. 58 came in 1983, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

History Grade

Ixworth grades A− for history

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

Protected heritage, for its size and in all (82 points, 357 per 10,000 residents)More than 89% of UK towns

Homes built before 1919 (15%)More than 46% 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.

Towns its size

Ixworth has the 35th most Grade I buildings of 1,395 towns its size

Places of 1,000–4,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.

Cromford10

Thaxted7

Great Haywood7

Appleby-in-Westmorland6

Ixworth2

#94 of 1,395for listed buildings per resident (331 per 10,000). Burford, Painswick and Chipping Campden lead.

34 have more. The typical town its size has 0.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Ixworth

Town	People	Listed	Grade I	History
Ixworth	2,296	76	2	A⁻
Stanton	2,316	30	0	B
Great Barton	1,848	16	0	C⁺
Thurston	3,009	13	0	C
Walsham le Willows	1,258	44	1	A
Elmswell	4,446	18	0	C
Woolpit	1,838	49	2	A⁻
Bury St Edmunds	41,279	732	26	A⁻

In brief

Ixworth in brief

Per resident, Ixworth has more listed heritage than 89% of UK towns. In all there are 76 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade I. Only 34 of the 1,395 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. High Street alone has 21 listed buildings.

A conservation area has protected part of it since 1973. Of the whole list, 78% are houses, terraces and villas. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1983: 58 of 76. Beyond that, Joy Marshall (1867) was born here before 1900; and 15% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.

Questions about Ixworth’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Ixworth?

Historic England lists 76 buildings inside Ixworth’s built-up area: 2 Grade I, 2 Grade II* and 72 Grade II.

What are the Grade I listed buildings in Ixworth?

2, including Church of St Mary and Ixworth Abbey.

How many conservation areas are there in Ixworth?

1, covering about 29 hectares of the town. The largest is Ixworth.

When were Ixworth’s buildings listed?

The first in 1950; the most, 58, in 1983.

How old are the homes in Ixworth?

15% of homes were built before 1919 and 20% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

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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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