48 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I

Church of St MaryGrade I listedMarket crossScheduled monumentThe Riverside HotelGrade II listedPart of Doctors Surgery the Market CafeGrade II listedNationwide Building SocietyGrade II listed+1See all photos

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.

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. Neighbourhood dots: the population-weighted centre of each Census 2021 output area, coloured by its neighbourhood’s (LSOA’s) share of homes built before 1919 (Valuation Office Agency, March 2025).

Of the 48 entries, 24 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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.

The first 14 entries were listed in 1954, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 26 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 2 have been added in the last 15 years.

2 scheduled monuments

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.

Market cross

Remains of dovecote

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.

6.1% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 22% 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 (47 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

William Gregory

Henry Bunbury

John Young

Pelham Aldrich

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Pelham Aldrich1844–1930 · Royal Navy Admiral (1844-1930)

Henry Bunbury1750–1811 · British artist; (1750-1811)

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William Gregory1400–1467 · English chronicler and mayor of London (d. 1467)

John Young1797–1877 · English architect and surveyor

Everyone born in Mildenhall → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.

Mildenhall has 48 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including St Mary's Church. Only 96 of the 688 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. On High Street alone there are 8 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1973.

Of the whole list, 69% are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 4 people born here before 1900, the best known include Pelham Aldrich (1844), Henry Bunbury (1750) and William Gregory (1400). Its homes are mostly newer: 6.6% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. The rest is about typical: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and it also has 2 scheduled monuments.