IChurch · listed 1953Church of St Mary the VirginPhoto: Nigel Cox · CC BY-SA 2.0
The Clubhouse, Brooklands Museum · Photo: MartynDavies · CC BY-SA 3.0C+History Grade
History of Byfleet · Historic England
27 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Byfleet’s built-up area, 19 for every 10,000 residents. It also has 2 scheduled monuments. 7.5% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 5 of its listed buildings. Byfleet grades C+ for history: #38 of 65 in Surrey.
Listed buildings
27
19 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
1
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
2
1 registered park or garden
Homes built before 1919
7.5%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Byfleet in 7 photos
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Painshill ParkGrade I park or garden
Church of St Mary the VirginGrade I listed
Brooklands Industrial Park Building TI20 (Former Aero Control Tower)Grade II listed
Byfleet War MemorialGrade II listed
Water TowerGrade II listed+2See 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 Byfleet’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 monumentPark or garden
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
0 of 9neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
27 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I1 Grade II*25 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 Grade I listed building in Byfleet
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 Byfleet
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed.
II*Public · listed 2002The Clubhouse, Brooklands MuseumPhoto: MartynDavies · CC BY-SA 3.0
What’s protected
The largest group of Byfleet’s listed buildings is homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas10
Public & civic buildings8
Walls, gates & bridges4
Churches, chapels & priories3
Memorials, crosses & tombs1
Inns, shops & warehouses1
10 entries (37%) are houses, terraces and villas. 3 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
25 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 25 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
'Crow Clump', 'The Corbies' and 'Yaffle Hill'Belfry House Stable CottageBellman Hangar, Brooklands MuseumBrooklands Industrial Park Building TI20 (Former Aero Control Tower)Brooklands Technical College (Brooklands House)Byfleet War MemorialCooper Tomb 20 Yards West of Church of St Mary the VirginEntrance Piers, Gates and Railings to Whiteley VillageFeltonfleet SchoolFormer Flight Booking Office, Brooklands MuseumFox Oak Including Attached Terrace WallsHoodsfieldLodge, 15 Yards East of Feltonfleet SchoolLong Wall and Retaining WallsQuince CottageShrapnell Tomb 20 Yards North West of Church of St Mary the VirginThe Clock HouseThe Hand and Spear HotelThe Old Fire StationThe Restaurant, Members' Hill, Brooklands MuseumThe White HouseWater TowerWest LodgeWestwood House (East) and West Lodge to Painshill House, Including Gate Piers32, Queens Road
Conservation areas
4 conservation areas cover 17% of Byfleet
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Brooklands 1989123 ha
Byfleet Village2 ha
Whiteley Village 19792 ha
Brooklands0 ha
127 hain conservation areas, of 765 ha inside the built-up area.
The first, Whiteley Village, was designated in 1979; the newest, Brooklands, in 1989. 10 of the 27 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
11 of Byfleet’s 27 listed buildings were added in 1984
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1984 · 11
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The first 3 entries were listed in 1953, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 11 came in 1984, 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.
1 registered park or garden
Painshill ParkGrade I
History Grade
Byfleet grades C+ for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (37 points, 26 per 10,000 residents)More than 53% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (7.5%)More than 17% 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
7.5% of Byfleet’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
3.2%
Before 1900
4.3%
1900–18
4.5%
1919–29
11%
1930s
7.4%
1945–54
17%
1955–64
13%
1965–72
11%
1973–82
5.2%
1983–92
5.6%
1993–99
8.9%
2000–08
5.7%
2009–15
3.5%
2016–25
ByfleetEngland & Wales
3.2% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, which added 17% 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 (111 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Towns its size
Byfleet has the 104th most Grade I buildings of 563 towns its size
Places of 9,000–23,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Byfleet1
#301 of 563for listed buildings per resident (19 per 10,000). Ludlow, Bridport and Monmouth lead.
103 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Byfleet
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Byfleet | 14,187 | 27 | 1 | C+ |
| Weybridge | 15,918 | 42 | 0 | B |
| New Haw, West Byfleet and Sheerwater | 33,035 | 24 | 0 | C− |
| Addlestone | 13,748 | 16 | 0 | C− |
| Hersham | 12,622 | 9 | 0 | C− |
| Chertsey | 14,558 | 96 | 0 | B+ |
| Shepperton | 5,917 | 12 | 0 | C |
| Cobham | 17,505 | 45 | 1 | B− |
In brief
Byfleet in brief
The official list counts 27 listed buildings in Byfleet, 1 of them Grade I, including Painshill Park. Only 103 of the 563 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. Its older streets lie in 4 conservation areas, the first designated in 1979. Its homes are mostly newer: 7.5% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. Otherwise the figures are ordinary: per resident it sits near the middle of UK towns; Tom Richardson (1870) and Benjamin Nicholls (1864) were born here before 1900; and it also has 2 scheduled monuments.
Questions about Byfleet’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Byfleet?
Historic England lists 27 buildings inside Byfleet’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 1 Grade II* and 25 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Byfleet?
One: Church of St Mary the Virgin.
Are there scheduled monuments in Byfleet?
Yes, 2 scheduled monuments, including Brooklands motor racing circuit, remains of the pre-World War II aerodrome, World War II Bofors tower and shelters, and the Brooklands memorial and Large multivallate hillfort on St George's Hill.
How many conservation areas are there in Byfleet?
4, covering about 127 hectares of the town. The largest are Brooklands and Byfleet Village.
When were Byfleet’s buildings listed?
The first in 1953; the most, 11, in 1984.
How old are the homes in Byfleet?
7.5% of homes were built before 1919 and 23% 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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