IChurch · listed 1954Church of St MaryPhoto: Robert Edwards · CC BY-SA 2.0
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History of Walsham le Willows · Historic England
44 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Walsham le Willows’s built-up area, 350 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 43 of Walsham le Willows’s listed buildings. 27% of its homes were built before 1919. Walsham le Willows grades A for history.
Listed buildings
44
350 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
27%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Walsham le Willows
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. 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 Walsham le Willows’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade I
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
44 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I0 Grade II*43 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 Walsham le Willows
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.
What’s protected
Most of Walsham le Willows’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas31
Churches, chapels & priories5
Inns, shops & warehouses4
Public & civic buildings3
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
31 entries (70%) are houses, terraces and villas. 5 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
43 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 43 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Animal PoundBank HouseBrook CottageChurch FarmhouseChurch RiseClive CottageCrownlands CottageFernsideFour AshesFour Ashes FarmhouseGrove CottageHall HouseMaltings HousePriors CloseRiverside CottageSidewaysSouth ViewSweetbriarsThatched Cottage and the Thumb BitThe BeechesThe Blue Boar Public HouseThe ChestnutsThe DagesThe ElmsThe Old StoresThe Old Sunday School (Parish Room)The Old VicarageThe PrioryThe RookeryThe Six Bells Public HouseThe Tiled HouseThe WoodlandsThornfieldTownhouseUnited Reformed ChurchVillage HallWalsham le Willows War MemorialWhite HouseWillow CottageWillow Tree FarmhouseYew Tree Cottage1, 2 and 3 Guildhall4, 5 and 6, The Causeway
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 39% of Walsham le Willows
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Walsham le Willows 197427 ha
27 hain conservation areas, of 68 ha inside the built-up area.
41 of the 44 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 Walsham le Willows’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1988
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1988 · 261954 · 11
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The first 11 entries were listed in 1954, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 26 came in 1988, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.
History Grade
Walsham le Willows 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 (46 points, 366 per 10,000 residents)More than 84% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (27%)More than 79% 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.
Homes by age
27% of Walsham le Willows’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
28%
Before 1900
0%
1900–18
2.4%
1919–29
7.3%
1930s
3.5%
1945–54
4.9%
1955–64
3.5%
1965–72
12%
1973–82
7.3%
1983–92
7.3%
1993–99
6.1%
2000–08
9.6%
2009–15
8.4%
2016–25
Walsham le WillowsEngland & Wales
28% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1973–82, which added 12% 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 (7 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Towns its size
Walsham le Willows has the 88th most Grade I buildings of 1,908 towns its size
Places of 1,000–2,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Walsham le Willows1
#225 of 1,908for listed buildings per resident (350 per 10,000). Aberaeron, Beaumaris and Burford lead.
87 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Walsham le Willows
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walsham le Willows | 1,258 | 44 | 1 | A |
| Stanton | 2,316 | 30 | 0 | B |
| Rickinghall and Botesdale | 1,842 | 75 | 1 | A+ |
| Bacton and Cotton | 1,567 | 28 | 2 | A− |
| Gislingham | 1,172 | 29 | 1 | A |
| Elmswell | 4,446 | 18 | 0 | C |
| Ixworth | 2,296 | 76 | 2 | A− |
| Woolpit | 1,838 | 49 | 2 | A− |
In brief
Walsham le Willows in brief
More of Walsham le Willows’s homes are old than in most places: 27% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 44 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. For its size, it has more listed heritage than 84% of UK towns. Only 87 of the 1,908 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings.
A conservation area has protected part of it since 1974. Most entries on the list, 70%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1988, when 26 of the 44 went on the list. The rest is about typical: Thomas Edward Wilkinson (1837) was born here before 1900.
Questions about Walsham le Willows’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Walsham le Willows?
Historic England lists 44 buildings inside Walsham le Willows’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 43 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Walsham le Willows?
One: Church of St Mary.
How many conservation areas are there in Walsham le Willows?
1, covering about 27 hectares of the town. The largest is Walsham le Willows.
When were Walsham le Willows’s buildings listed?
The first in 1954; the most, 26, in 1988.
How old are the homes in Walsham le Willows?
27% of homes were built before 1919 and 37% 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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