Alston Court · Photo: Graham W Griffiths · CC BY-SA 3.0

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History of Nayland · Historic England

109 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade I

On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Nayland’s built-up area, 1,132 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 1 scheduled monument. 41% of its homes were built before 1919.

2Grade I 6Grade II*1scheduled monument 15on Bear Street

Listed buildings

109

1,132 per 10,000 residents

Grade I

exceptional interest

Grade II*

more than special interest

Scheduled monuments

nationally important sites

Homes built before 1919

41%

typical UK town 15%

In pictures

Landmarks of Nayland

Tap a photo to step through them full screen.

Church of St JamesGrade I 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 Nayland’s history is

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

Grade IGrade II*Scheduled monument

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

109 listed buildings by grade

2 Grade I6 Grade II*101 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 Nayland

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.

Public · listed 1953Alston CourtPhoto: Graham W Griffiths · CC BY-SA 3.0

Church · listed 1961Church of St JamesPhoto: Peter French , Flying Tiger Studio · Public domain

Grade II*

The 6 Grade II* listed buildings in Nayland

Particularly important buildings of more than special interest.

House · listed 1978Dresden Cottage

House · listed 1953Odd Corners

House · listed 19531 and 3, High Street

House · listed 19531, Birch Street

House · listed 197817 and 19, Court Street

House · listed 19786 and 8, Birch Street

Historic streets

Bear Street has the most listed buildings

Streets by the listed entries with an address on them. One entry can be a whole terrace, so long rows count once.

Bear Street15 listed

High Street9 listed · 1 II*

Birch Street7 listed · 2 II*

Fen Street6 listed

Mill Street4 listed

Court Street3 listed · 1 II*

Stoke Road3 listed

Of the 109 entries, 50 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

What’s protected

Most of Nayland’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas89

Walls, gates & bridges7

Public & civic buildings4

Inns, shops & warehouses4

Churches, chapels & priories3

Memorials, crosses & tombs2

89 entries (82%) are houses, terraces and villas. 3 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 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

101 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 101 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z

Ancient House Bridge House Butchers Butts Cedar Cottage Cedar House Clare Cottage Cob Cottage Egg Hall Fencote Fengate Fern Cottage Fir Cottage Floodgate Cottage Garden Wall to Alston Court Hill House Hillside Hollyhock Cottage Knollgate Little Scrafield Longwood House Nayland Bridge Nayland War Memorial New Leaf Number 16 (Church View) and Number 18 Old Vicarage House Outbuilding to No 19 (Stourbank)Parkers Post Office Ranworth House Riverside Cottages Sergeants St Jame's Gate Star and Garter Public House Stour Cottage Stour House Stourbank Stourbank Cottage Stream House The Anchor Public House The Hatherings The Manse The Obelisk Immediately West of No 18 The Old Guildhall The Old Maltings The Vine House The White House United Reformed Church Vine Cottage Wall 30 Yards to the North of Church of St James Wall Between Butts and Alston Court Walls to No 19 (Stourbank)Weavers White Hart Hotel Yew Tree Cottage 1, Fen Street 1-5, Church Mews 1-5, Mill Street 10 and 12, Stoke Road 10, High Street 100, Bear Street 11 and 13, Stoke Road 12, High Street 15, High Street 16 and 18, Court Street 17, High Street 18, Fen Street 2 and 4, Stoke Road 2, Bear Street 2, Birch Street 2, Gravel Hill 2, High Street 20 and 22, Birch Street 29, Bear Street 3, Bear Street 39, Bear Street 4, Bear Street 4, Birch Street 4, Mill Street 40, Fen Street 41, Bear Street 44 and 46, Bear Street 5, Fen Street 5, High Street 50, Bear Street 52 and 54, Bear Street 6 and 8, High Street 6-10, Newlands Lane 7 and 9, Bear Street 7 and 9, High Street 7, Birch Street 7, Court Street 7, Fen Street 7, Mill Street 8-12, Bear Street 81, Bear Street 82, Bear Street 84, Bear Street 9, Fen Street 9, Mill Street 9-13, Birch Street

Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 58% of Nayland

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

Nayland 197333 ha

33 hain conservation areas, of 56 ha inside the built-up area.

107 of the 109 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 Nayland’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1978

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

1978 · 581953 · 301961 · 14

19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 30 entries were listed in 1953, 1 of the 2 Grade I buildings among them. 58 came in 1978, 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 scheduled monument

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

Earthwork called Court Knoll

Homes by age

41% of Nayland’s homes were built before 1919

Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).

40%

Before 1900

1.1%

1900–18

3.5%

1919–29

3.5%

1930s

6.8%

1945–54

14%

1955–64

13%

1965–72

3.5%

1973–82

1.1%

1983–92

3.5%

1993–99

3.5%

2000–08

2.2%

2009–15

4.6%

2016–25

NaylandEngland & Wales

40% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, which added 14% 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 (5 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Born here

3 notable people born in Nayland before 1900

Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.

Isaac Stearns

George Downing Liveing

Robert Liveing

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George Downing Liveing1827–1924 · English chemist and spectroscopist (1827–1924)

Robert Liveing1834–1919 · Physician and dermatologist (1834-1919) Adm. pens. at CHRIST\\'S, Apr…

Isaac Stearns1595–1671 · Massachusetts Bay Colony settler

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

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Nayland

Town	People	Listed	Grade I	History
Nayland	963	109	2	—
Great Horkesley	2,232	30	0	B
Bures	1,183	54	1	A⁺
West Bergholt	3,175	11	0	C⁺
Eight Ash Green	1,769	4	0	C⁻
Colchester	130,259	443	13	B⁺
Ardleigh	1,042	18	0	B⁺
Hadleigh	8,638	230	4	A

In brief

Nayland in brief

More of Nayland’s homes are old than in most places: 41% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 109 listed buildings, 2 of them Grade I. On Bear Street alone there are 15 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1973.

Most entries on the list, 82%, are houses, terraces and villas. George Downing Liveing (1827), Robert Liveing (1834) and Isaac Stearns (1595) were all born here before 1900. The big year was 1978, when 58 of the 109 went on the list. The rest is about typical: it also has a scheduled monument.

Questions about Nayland’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Nayland?

Historic England lists 109 buildings inside Nayland’s built-up area: 2 Grade I, 6 Grade II* and 101 Grade II.

What are the Grade I listed buildings in Nayland?

2, including Alston Court and Church of St James.

Which street in Nayland has the most listed buildings?

Bear Street (15), High Street (9) and Birch Street (7) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.

Are there scheduled monuments in Nayland?

Yes, 1 scheduled monument, including Earthwork called Court Knoll.

How many conservation areas are there in Nayland?

1, covering about 33 hectares of the town. The largest is Nayland.

When were Nayland’s buildings listed?

The first in 1953; the most, 58, in 1978.

Who was born in Nayland?

Among people born before 1900: George Downing Liveing (1827), Robert Liveing (1834) and Isaac Stearns (1595).

How old are the homes in Nayland?

41% of homes were built before 1919 and 48% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Nayland 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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