IHouse · listed 1952Gainsborough's HousePhoto: Oxyman · CC BY 2.5
Church of St Mary · Photo: William Henderson · CC BY-SA 3.0A−History Grade
History of Sudbury · Historic England
255 listed buildings, 8 of them Grade I
Historic England counts them inside Sudbury’s built-up area, 107 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 2 scheduled monuments. We have photos of 18 of its listed buildings. 15% of its homes were built before 1919. Sudbury grades A− for history: #10 of 34 in Suffolk.
Listed buildings
255
107 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
8
exceptional interest
Grade II*
8
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
2
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
15%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Sudbury in 18 photos
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Gainsborough's HouseGrade I listed
The ChantryGrade I listed
Maldon Grey InnGrade II listed
Corn Mill (Sudbury Flour Mills)Grade II listed
Westminster BankGrade II listed+13See all photosPhotos 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 Sudbury’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Grade IGrade II*Scheduled monument400 m from Gainsborough's House
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
5 of 8Grade I buildings stand within 400 m of Gainsborough's House, a five-minute walk. So do 177 of the 255 listed buildings.
0 of 16neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 47% were built before 1919.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
255 listed buildings by grade
8 Grade I8 Grade II*239 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. 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).
Grade I
The 8 Grade I listed buildings in Sudbury
Buildings of exceptional interest, about 2.5% of all listed buildings; 5 of these stand within 400 m of Gainsborough's House. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
IChurch · listed 1961St Mary's Church, ChiltonOn the list as Church of St MaryPhoto: William Henderson · CC BY-SA 3.0
IChurch · listed 1952The ChantryPhoto: Maria · CC BY-SA 3.0
IChurch · listed 1952Church of All SaintsPhoto: Oxyman · CC BY-SA 2.0
IChurch · listed 1961Church of St AndrewPhoto: Robert Edwards · CC BY-SA 2.0
IChurch · listed 1952Church of St GregoryPhoto: Oxyman · CC BY-SA 2.0
IChurch · listed 1952St Peter's ChurchOn the list as Church of St PeterPhoto: Robert Edwards · CC BY-SA 2.0
IPublic · listed 1952Salter's HallPhoto: Maria · CC BY-SA 3.0
Grade II*
The 8 Grade II* listed buildings in Sudbury
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. 7 are photographed.
II*Church · listed 1952Chapel at St Bartholomew's Priory FarmPhoto: Bob Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0
II*Public · listed 1971Corn Exchange Public LibraryPhoto: Oxyman · CC BY-SA 2.0
II*Walls & gates · listed 1952Priory GatePhoto: Simon Huguet · CC BY-SA 2.0
II*Public · listed 1952Stour HallPhoto: Maria · CC BY-SA 3.0
II*Public · listed 1952Ye Old Moot HallPhoto: Mike Quinn · CC BY-SA 2.0
II*House · listed 195217, Friars StreetPhoto: Mike Quinn · CC BY-SA 2.0
II*House · listed 195230, Market HillPhoto: Mike Quinn · CC BY-SA 2.0
House · listed 1952The Red House
Historic streets
Friars 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.
Friars Street30 listed · 1 II*
North Street25 listed
Ballingdon Street21 listed
Market Hill20 listed · 1 II*
Gainsborough Street17 listed
Church Street10 listed
King Street7 listed
Cross Street5 listed
Stour Street4 listed
Of the 255 entries, 155 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.
What’s protected
Most of Sudbury’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas201
Inns, shops & warehouses17
Public & civic buildings12
Churches, chapels & priories12
Walls, gates & bridges11
Memorials, crosses & tombs2
201 entries (79%) are houses, terraces and villas. 12 are churches, chapels and priories, including 6 of the 8 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
239 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.
The first 150 of 239 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Ancient Wall Remains in the Garden of Number 57Ancient Wall in Garden of Number 53AAngel InnArchway at Entrance to Sudbury Junior SchoolArchway of Former GaolBallingdon GroveBarclays BankBarn, Stable and Cartlodge at Green FarmBear HotelBlack Boy HotelBlue BoarBridge HouseBrook HouseCatholic Church of Our Lady and St John the Evangelist with attached Presbytery, SudburyChurchyard WallsCloggs Hall FarmhouseCorn Mill (Sudbury Flour Mills)CrantockFlemingsFlint LodgeFormer Granary BFormer Granary aFormer Sudbury Institute Club (Now Part of Barclays Bank)Former stable block at River HouseFront Wall of Garden of the ConventGarden Wall Adjoining Stour Hall WestGateway to St Gregory's College (Now Modern Workhouse), West Side of ChurchyardGazebo in Garden of the Red HouseGrammar School Hall, Cloister, And Former Headmaster's HouseGreat Cornard War MemorialGrey FriarsHardwicke HouseHighfield Mill Highfield MillhouseHive Community HubHouse and Office (Peatling Cawdron) a Few Yards South East of White Horse Inn in North Street and with White Horse Yard Behind ItHouse and Small Shop (R B Maswell) Adjacent Stour Cottage on WestKarl LindekamMaldon Grey InnMere HouseMill HouseNoil CottageOutbuilding to Number 19Priory CottageRectoryRiver HouseRoyal Oak InnSchool HallSerpentine Walls of Garden of the Red HouseShip and Star InnSt Bartholomew's Priory FarmhouseSt BernardSt Mary'sSt Mary'sStatue of Thomas GainsboroughStone FarmhouseStour House (Nurses Home)Sudbury Quaker Meeting HouseThe Christopher InnThe ConventThe Folly at OakvilleThe FriarsThe Gainsborough BookshopThe Gainsborough CinemaThe King's Head Public HouseThe Kings Head InnThe Old RectoryThe Old VicarageThe Red HouseThe Transport CafeTown HallTreasure ChestTrinity HouseTyne House Wing of Number 26Wall Adjoining Trinity House to SouthWall North West of Sports GroundWalls of Burial Ground of Friends Meeting HouseWar Memorial Opposite St Gregory's ChurchWest HouseWestminster BankWhite Hart HouseWhite Horse HotelWrongs Farmhouse1 (The Stone) and 2 Stour Street1 and 2 (Mill Tye Cottage) Mill Tye1 and 2, King Street1 and 2, Weavers Lane1, 2 and 2A, Market Hill1, North Street1-6, Ballingdon Street10 and 11, King Street10 and 11, Market Hill10-13, Ballingdon Street11 and 12, Weaver's Lane11 and 13, Friars Street12, Church Street12, Cross Street12, Market Hill120, 122 and 124, Bures Road13 and 14, Market Hill13-15, Gainsborough Street14 and 15, Ballingdon Street14 and 16, Friars Street14-16 Church Street15 and 16, Cross Street15 and 16, Market Hill15, Friars Street16, North Street17 and 17a North Street17 and 18, Ballingdon Street17, 18 and 18A, Market Hill17-20, Church Street18, Friars Street18, Gainsborough Street18, The Croft19 and 20, Ballingdon Street19, Stour Street19, The Croft2 Friar's Street and 40 Market Hill2, North Street2-10, Middleton Road20, Friars Street21 and 22, Cross Street21 and 23, Friars Street21-25, Church Street22, King Street23 and 24, Market Hill23, Ballingdon Street24, Friars Street24, North Street24-27, Gainsborough Street25 North Street25, Friars Street25-27, Market Hill26, Friars Street27 and 29, Friars Street28, Friars Street28, Market Hill28-30, Gainsborough Street29 and 30, Church Street29, Market Hill3 and 4, Church Street3 and 4, Market Hill3 and 4, Stour Street3 and 40, Burkitts Lane3, North Street3, Old Market Place31 and 31A, Friars Street31, Market Hill32, Gainsborough Street32, King Street
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 7.8% of Sudbury
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Sudbury 197355 ha
55 hain conservation areas, of 701 ha inside the built-up area.
229 of the 255 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 Sudbury’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1971
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1971 · 1861952 · 36
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 36 entries were listed in 1952, 6 of the 8 Grade I buildings among them. 186 came in 1971, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has 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.
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.
History Grade
Sudbury grades A− for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (283 points, 118 per 10,000 residents)More than 86% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (15%)More than 45% of UK towns
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.
Born here
11 notable people born in Sudbury before 1900
Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
Thomas Weld
Thomas Gainsborough
William Enfield
Gainsborough Dupont
George Murray Humphry
Joseph Page
Alice Mary Chaplin
Arthur George Perkin
Philip Maud
Harold Mattingly
Elinor Proby Adams
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Thomas Gainsborough1727–1788 · English portrait and landscape painter (1727-1788)
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Harold Mattingly1884–1964 · British classicist, numismatist, author (1884–1964)
Arthur George Perkin1861–1937 · English chemist and Professor of Colour Chemistry and Dyeing at the U…
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William Enfield1741–1797 · British unitarian minister
Gainsborough Dupont1754–1797 · English artist (1754-1797)
George Murray Humphry1820–1896 · Anatomist
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Joseph Page1841–1907 · New Zealand cricketer
Philip Maud1870–1947 · English rugby union player and military officer (1870–1947)
Everyone born in Sudbury → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Towns its size
Sudbury has the 9th most Grade I buildings of 419 towns its size
Places of 14,000–38,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Sudbury8
#42 of 419for listed buildings per resident (107 per 10,000). Lewes, Tewkesbury and Llandudno lead.
Only Armagh, Ely, Chichester, Warwick, Stratford-upon-Avon, Lewes, Abingdon-on-Thames and Bishop Auckland have more. Sudbury is level with Beverley and Stamford. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Sudbury
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sudbury | 23,922 | 255 | 8 | A− |
| Great Waldingfield | 1,377 | 20 | 0 | B− |
| Acton | 1,666 | 13 | 1 | C+ |
| Long Melford | 3,895 | 184 | 2 | A+ |
| Bures | 1,183 | 54 | 1 | A+ |
| Glemsford | 3,693 | 37 | 1 | A− |
| Lavenham | 1,224 | 196 | 13 | A+ |
| Castle Hedingham | 1,045 | 105 | 1 | A+ |
In brief
Sudbury in brief
Per resident, Sudbury has more listed heritage than 86% of UK towns. All told, the list holds 255 listed buildings, 8 of them Grade I. Its Grade I buildings cluster together: 5 of them stand within 400 m of Gainsborough's House. Only 8 of the 419 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings.
Friars Street alone has 30 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1973. Most entries on the list, 79%, are houses, terraces and villas. Beyond that, it also has 2 scheduled monuments; and 15% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.
Questions about Sudbury’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Sudbury?
Historic England lists 255 buildings inside Sudbury’s built-up area: 8 Grade I, 8 Grade II* and 239 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Sudbury?
8, including Church of All Saints, Church of St Andrew, Church of St Gregory, Church of St Mary, Church of St Peter and Gainsborough's House.
Which street in Sudbury has the most listed buildings?
Friars Street (30), North Street (25) and Ballingdon Street (21) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.
Are there scheduled monuments in Sudbury?
Yes, 2 scheduled monuments, including St Bartholomew's Chapel and Wood Hall moated site.
How many conservation areas are there in Sudbury?
1, covering about 55 hectares of the town. The largest is Sudbury.
When were Sudbury’s buildings listed?
The first in 1952; the most, 186, in 1971.
Who was born in Sudbury?
Among people born before 1900: Thomas Gainsborough (1727), Harold Mattingly (1884), Arthur George Perkin (1861), William Enfield (1741) and Gainsborough Dupont (1754).
How old are the homes in Sudbury?
15% of homes were built before 1919 and 19% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
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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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