IChurch · listed 1955Church of St. PeterPhoto: Keith Evans · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: Geographer · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
History of Palgrave · Historic England
30 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Palgrave’s built-up area, 307 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 28 of Palgrave’s listed buildings. 33% of its homes were built before 1919.
Listed buildings
30
307 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
33%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Palgrave
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 Palgrave’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade IGrade II*
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
30 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I1 Grade II*28 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 Palgrave
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.
Grade II*
The Grade II* listed building in Palgrave
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest.
House · listed 1955Brackendale
What’s protected
Most of Palgrave’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas20
Churches, chapels & priories7
Street furniture1
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
Public & civic buildings1
20 entries (67%) are houses, terraces and villas. 7 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
28 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 28 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Burlington CottagesCatchpole Memorial About 15M South of Church of St PeterChurch Farm HouseFairwaysForge Cottage and Harrow CottageGarnet HouseHemplands with Attached OutbuildingsIvy CottageK6 Telephone KioskLime Tree Farm HouseLongs Farm HouseNorth ViewOrme HousePalgrave War MemorialPenning Memorial About 30M East of Church of St PeterPost Office and StoresPriory Farm CottagesSun View CottageSunnyside CottageThe CottageThe Cottage near ChurchThe HolliesThe Paddocks and Paddocks SideThe PrioryThe SwanThe ThatchesTudor CottageWeavers Mark
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 25% of Palgrave
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Palgrave 197511 ha
11 hain conservation areas, of 43 ha inside the built-up area.
22 of the 30 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 Palgrave’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1987
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1987 · 221955 · 5
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The first 5 entries were listed in 1955, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 22 came in 1987, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.
Homes by age
33% of Palgrave’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
31%
Before 1900
0.9%
1900–18
1.8%
1919–29
3.6%
1930s
2.7%
1945–54
3.6%
1955–64
3.6%
1965–72
7.9%
1973–82
8.8%
1983–92
8.8%
1993–99
11%
2000–08
5.4%
2009–15
11%
2016–25
PalgraveEngland & Wales
31% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 2000–08, which added 11% 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 Palgrave
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palgrave | 976 | 30 | 1 | — |
| Diss | 9,599 | 160 | 1 | A− |
| Roydon (South Norfolk) | 1,117 | 10 | 1 | C+ |
| Scole | 1,037 | 17 | 1 | B+ |
| Eye | 2,211 | 140 | 3 | A+ |
| Dickleburgh | 1,166 | 35 | 1 | A |
| Rickinghall and Botesdale | 1,842 | 75 | 1 | A+ |
| Gislingham | 1,172 | 29 | 1 | A |
In brief
Palgrave in brief
More of Palgrave’s homes are old than in most places: 33% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 30 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1975.
Most entries on the list, 67%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1987, when 22 of the 30 went on the list. The rest is about typical: Douglas Lloyd Savory (1878) was born here before 1900.
Questions about Palgrave’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Palgrave?
Historic England lists 30 buildings inside Palgrave’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 28 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Palgrave?
One: Church of St. Peter.
How many conservation areas are there in Palgrave?
1, covering about 11 hectares of the town. The largest is Palgrave.
When were Palgrave’s buildings listed?
The first in 1955; the most, 22, in 1987.
How old are the homes in Palgrave?
33% of homes were built before 1919 and 39% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Palgrave 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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