110 listed buildings, 4 of them Grade II*

Church of St AgnesGrade II* listedChurch of St MaryGrade II* listedThe Jockey ClubGrade II listedQueensbury Lodge and Attached WallGrade II listedQueensbury CottageGrade II listed+3See 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.

c. 1926

Public domain, from Wikimedia Commons, copied to our own server. Each credit opens the image’s page with its full description and history.

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).

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 7 entries were listed in 1950. 51 came in 1984, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 3 have been added in the last 15 years.

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.

John Huske

Francis Buckle

Sydney Prior Hall

John Daley

Ernest Hall

Thomas Elsdon Ashford

Harry George Smart

Gerald Livock

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Sydney Prior Hall1842–1922 · British artist (1842-1922)

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Ernest Hall1851–1936 · English cricketer (1851-1936)

John Huske1692–1761 · British Army general (1692-1761)

Harry George Smart1891–1963 · Royal Air Force air marshal (1891-1963)

Gerald Livock1897–1989 · Cricketer (1897-1989)

Francis Buckle1766–1832 · British jockey

JD

John Daley1846– · British jockey

Thomas Elsdon Ashford1859–1913 · English soldier (1859–1913); recipient of the Victoria Cross

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

Newmarket has 110 listed buildings, including Church of St Agnes. On High Street alone there are 12 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1988.

Of the whole list, 65% are houses, terraces and villas. Of the 8 people born here before 1900, the best known include Sydney Prior Hall (1842), Ernest Hall (1851) and John Huske (1692). The rest is about typical: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; and 18% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.