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History of Ockley · Historic England

35 listed buildings

Historic England counts them inside Ockley’s built-up area, 1,203 for every 10,000 residents. Every listed building in Ockley is Grade II. 39% of its homes were built before 1919.

Listed buildings
35
1,203 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
39%
typical UK town 15%
The map

Where Ockley’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.

35 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I0 Grade II*35 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.

What’s protected

Most of Ockley’s listed buildings are homes

Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.

Houses, terraces & villas27
Inns, shops & warehouses3
Public & civic buildings3
Street furniture1
Walls, gates & bridges1

27 entries (77%) are houses, terraces and villas.

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

35 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 35 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 69% of Ockley

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

Ockley 197419 ha
19 hain conservation areas, of 28 ha inside the built-up area.

34 of the 35 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 Ockley’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1966

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

1966 · 181987 · 13
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 18 entries were listed in 1966. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.

Homes by age

39% of Ockley’s homes were built before 1919

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

36%
Before 1900
5.5%
1900–18
9.1%
1919–29
9.1%
1930s
8.2%
1945–54
11%
1955–64
3.6%
1965–72
3.6%
1973–82
2.7%
1983–92
3.6%
1993–99
5.5%
2000–08
0.9%
2009–15
0.9%
2016–25
OckleyEngland & Wales

36% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, 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 (6 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Ockley

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Ockley291350—
Beare Green1,94060C
Ewhurst1,517301A−
Cranleigh10,430430B−
Rudgwick2,145381A−
Broadbridge Heath6,357150C−
Slinfold1,163240A−
Westcott2,275340A
In brief

Ockley in brief

Old houses are part of Ockley’s character: 39% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 35 listed buildings. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1974. Of the whole list, 77% are houses, terraces and villas. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1966: 18 of 35.

Questions about Ockley’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Ockley?

Historic England lists 35 buildings inside Ockley’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 35 Grade II.

How many conservation areas are there in Ockley?

1, covering about 19 hectares of the town. The largest is Ockley.

When were Ockley’s buildings listed?

The first in 1966; the most, 18, in 1966.

How old are the homes in Ockley?

39% of homes were built before 1919 and 57% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Ockley 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.