II*Church · listed 1955Church of St Mary the VirginPhoto: Keith Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: Lukedmartib88 · CC BY-SA 4.0–Not graded
History of Mellis · Historic England
24 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade II*
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Mellis’s built-up area, 426 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 21 of Mellis’s listed buildings. 26% of its homes were built before 1919.
Listed buildings
24
426 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
3
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
26%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Mellis
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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 Mellis’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade II*
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
24 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I3 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 II*
The 3 Grade II* listed buildings in Mellis
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. 2 are photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
II*House · listed 1955Yaxley Manor HousePhoto: Andrew Hill · CC BY-SA 2.0
House · listed 1955Elm Tree Farmhouse
What’s protected
Most of Mellis’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas23
Churches, chapels & priories1
23 entries (96%) 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
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
Ash Tree Farm HouseBarn About 20M East of Home Farm HouseBarn About 30M South West of Cowpasture Farm HouseBarn About 35M East of White House Farm HouseBarn About 40M North of Elm Tree FarmhouseBullocks Farm HouseCowspasture Farm HouseHome Farm HouseMead CottagePear Tree CottageRectory Farm HouseRosetree Cottage (Including Part of Rose Cottage)ThatchThe CottageThe GlebeThe GranaryThe LaurelsThe Old ForgeThe Old Rectory with Attached OutbuildingsWhite House Farm House85 and 86, Mellis Green
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 55% of Mellis
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Mellis 197327 ha
27 hain conservation areas, of 48 ha inside the built-up area.
22 of the 24 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 Mellis’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1987
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1987 · 141955 · 9
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 9 entries were listed in 1955. 14 came in 1987, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Homes by age
26% of Mellis’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
26%
Before 1900
0%
1900–18
1.6%
1919–29
4.4%
1930s
1.6%
1945–54
0%
1955–64
12%
1965–72
7.5%
1973–82
18%
1983–92
9.1%
1993–99
9.1%
2000–08
1.6%
2009–15
9.1%
2016–25
MellisEngland & Wales
26% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1983–92, which added 18% 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 (4 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Mellis
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mellis | 563 | 24 | 0 | — |
| Gislingham | 1,172 | 29 | 1 | A |
| Eye | 2,211 | 140 | 3 | A+ |
| Rickinghall and Botesdale | 1,842 | 75 | 1 | A+ |
| Roydon (South Norfolk) | 1,117 | 10 | 1 | C+ |
| Diss | 9,599 | 160 | 1 | A− |
| Scole | 1,037 | 17 | 1 | B+ |
| Bacton and Cotton | 1,567 | 28 | 2 | A− |
In brief
Mellis in brief
More of Mellis’s homes are old than in most places: 26% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 24 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1973. Most entries on the list, 96%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1987, when 14 of the 24 went on the list.
Questions about Mellis’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Mellis?
Historic England lists 24 buildings inside Mellis’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 3 Grade II* and 21 Grade II.
How many conservation areas are there in Mellis?
1, covering about 27 hectares of the town. The largest is Mellis.
When were Mellis’s buildings listed?
The first in 1955; the most, 14, in 1987.
How old are the homes in Mellis?
26% of homes were built before 1919 and 32% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Mellis 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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