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History of Brook · Historic England

18 listed buildings

Historic England counts them inside Brook’s built-up area, 248 for every 10,000 residents. All of Brook’s listed buildings are Grade II. 43% of its homes were built before 1919.

Listed buildings
18
248 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
0
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
43%
typical UK town 15%
The map

Where Brook’s history is

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

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

18 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I0 Grade II*18 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 II

18 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 18 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas

2 conservation areas cover 4.3% of Brook

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

Sandhills, Witley 19843 ha
Witley 19701 ha
4 hain conservation areas, of 99 ha inside the built-up area.

The first, Witley, was designated in 1970; the newest, Sandhills, Witley, in 1984. 4 of the 18 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 Brook’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1986

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

1986 · 11
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The first 2 entries were listed in 1960. 11 came in 1986, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

Homes by age

43% of Brook’s homes were built before 1919

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

41%
Before 1900
4.1%
1900–18
5.1%
1919–29
11%
1930s
5.4%
1945–54
9.9%
1955–64
2.4%
1965–72
2%
1973–82
1%
1983–92
7.8%
1993–99
5.8%
2000–08
1%
2009–15
3.4%
2016–25
BrookEngland & Wales

41% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was the 1930s, 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 (8 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Brook

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Brook726180—
Chiddingfold2,160401A
Milford and Witley6,489461B+
Godalming10,4501651A
Hindhead6,444200B−
Elstead2,261180B
Haslemere11,8971420A
Farncombe13,247621B+
In brief

Brook in brief

Old houses are part of Brook’s character: 43% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 18 listed buildings. Its older streets lie in 2 conservation areas, the first designated in 1970. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1986: 11 of 18.

Questions about Brook’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Brook?

Historic England lists 18 buildings inside Brook’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 18 Grade II.

How many conservation areas are there in Brook?

2, covering about 4 hectares of the town. The largest are Sandhills, Witley and Witley.

When were Brook’s buildings listed?

The first in 1960; the most, 11, in 1986.

How old are the homes in Brook?

43% of homes were built before 1919 and 58% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Brook has no History Grade.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The National Heritage List for England is the official, up-to-date register of all nationally protected historic buildings and sites in England; check an entry on Historic England’s website before relying on it.

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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.