38 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade I

Church of St Peter and St PaulGrade I listedSt Peter's Cross and Village CageGrade I listedThe Greyhound Public HouseGrade II listedFormer The Old Cage Public HouseGrade II listedLingfield War MemorialGrade II listed+6See all photos

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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.

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.

The first 19 entries were listed in 1958, 3 of the 3 Grade I buildings among them. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

1 scheduled monument

Nationally important archaeological sites and monuments, protected by law; work on them needs consent from the Secretary of State, advised by Historic England.

Village cage and St Peter's Cross

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.

20% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, 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 (10 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Old houses are part of Lingfield’s character: 26% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 38 listed buildings, 3 of them Grade I, including Pollard Cottage Pollard House. Per resident, it has more listed heritage than 78% of UK towns. Church of St Peter and St Paul sits at the heart of it all, with 3 of the town’s Grade I buildings within 400 m.

Only 25 of the 1,107 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1972. Of the whole list, 55% are houses, terraces and villas. The rest is about typical: James Bonwick (1817) and James Leatham Birley (1884) were born here before 1900; and it also has a scheduled monument.