IChurch · listed 1961Church of St LawrencePhoto: Robert Edwards · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: Robert Edwards · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
History of Little Waldingfield · Historic England
22 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Little Waldingfield’s built-up area, 604 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 21 of Little Waldingfield’s listed buildings. 21% of its homes were built before 1919.
Listed buildings
22
604 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
21%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Little Waldingfield
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 Little Waldingfield’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade I
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
22 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I0 Grade II*21 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 Little Waldingfield
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 Little Waldingfield’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas11
Inns, shops & warehouses6
Churches, chapels & priories2
Street furniture1
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
Public & civic buildings1
11 entries (50%) 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
21 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 21 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Barn to the North of Maltings FarmhouseBarn to the South West of Maltings FarmhouseBrand Cottage and Butchers CottageChurchsideEnniskillenK6 Telephone KioskLittle Waldingfield War MemorialMaltings CottageMaltings FarmhouseMorning Dawn and Kiln CottagePark FarmhousePink CottageStores CottageSwan InnThe CottageThe GrangeThe Old VicarageThe PrioryWhite Horse InnWood Hall Farmhouse1 and 2, Church Road
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 40% of Little Waldingfield
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Little Waldingfield 19738 ha
8 hain conservation areas, of 21 ha inside the built-up area.
20 of the 22 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 Little Waldingfield’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1978
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1978 · 15
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The first 3 entries were listed in 1953. 15 came in 1978, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Little Waldingfield
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Little Waldingfield | 364 | 22 | 1 | — |
| Great Waldingfield | 1,377 | 20 | 0 | B− |
| Acton | 1,666 | 13 | 1 | C+ |
| Lavenham | 1,224 | 196 | 13 | A+ |
| Sudbury | 23,922 | 255 | 8 | A− |
| Long Melford | 3,895 | 184 | 2 | A+ |
| Bildeston | 1,096 | 71 | 0 | A+ |
| Glemsford | 3,693 | 37 | 1 | A− |
In brief
Little Waldingfield in brief
The official list counts 22 listed buildings in Little Waldingfield, 1 of them Grade I. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1973. Most entries on the list, 50%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1978, when 15 of the 22 went on the list. Beyond that, Samuel Appleton (1625) was born here before 1900; and 21% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.
Questions about Little Waldingfield’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Little Waldingfield?
Historic England lists 22 buildings inside Little Waldingfield’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 21 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Little Waldingfield?
One: Church of St Lawrence.
How many conservation areas are there in Little Waldingfield?
1, covering about 8 hectares of the town. The largest is Little Waldingfield.
When were Little Waldingfield’s buildings listed?
The first in 1953; the most, 15, in 1978.
How old are the homes in Little Waldingfield?
21% of homes were built before 1919 and 28% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Little Waldingfield has no History Grade.
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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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