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History of Shamley Green · Historic England

30 listed buildings

Historic England counts them inside Shamley Green’s built-up area, 250 for every 10,000 residents. Every listed building in Shamley Green is Grade II. 33% of its homes were built before 1919. Shamley Green grades A for history.

Listed buildings
30
250 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
33%
typical UK town 15%
The map

Where Shamley Green’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.

30 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I0 Grade II*30 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 Shamley Green’s listed buildings are homes

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

Houses, terraces & villas25
Public & civic buildings3
Churches, chapels & priories1
Memorials, crosses & tombs1

25 entries (83%) are houses, terraces and villas. 1 are churches, chapels and priories.

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

30 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 30 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 17% of Shamley Green

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

Shamley Green 197314 ha
14 hain conservation areas, of 81 ha inside the built-up area.

16 of the 30 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 Shamley Green’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1986

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

1986 · 171960 · 10
19501960197019801990200020102020

The first 10 entries were listed in 1960. 17 came in 1986, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

History Grade

Shamley Green 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 (30 points, 250 per 10,000 residents)More than 76% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (33%)More than 88% 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

33% of Shamley Green’s homes were built before 1919

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

30%
Before 1900
3.8%
1900–18
3.8%
1919–29
19%
1930s
7.4%
1945–54
16%
1955–64
5%
1965–72
5%
1973–82
1.2%
1983–92
1.2%
1993–99
2.4%
2000–08
2.4%
2009–15
3.8%
2016–25
Shamley GreenEngland & Wales

30% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was the 1930s, which added 19% 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 (0 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Shamley Green

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Shamley Green1,200300A
Bramley and Wonersh4,193610A
Chilworth1,91770B−
Shalford2,508270A−
Cranleigh10,430430B−
Godalming10,4501651A
Farncombe13,247621B+
Gomshall1,378130A−
In brief

Shamley Green in brief

Old houses are part of Shamley Green’s character: 33% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. In all there are 30 listed buildings. For its size, it has more listed heritage than 76% of UK towns.

A conservation area has protected part of it since 1973. Of the whole list, 83% are houses, terraces and villas. More than half went on the list in a single year, 1986: 17 of 30.

Questions about Shamley Green’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Shamley Green?

Historic England lists 30 buildings inside Shamley Green’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 30 Grade II.

How many conservation areas are there in Shamley Green?

1, covering about 14 hectares of the town. The largest is Shamley Green.

When were Shamley Green’s buildings listed?

The first in 1960; the most, 17, in 1986.

How old are the homes in Shamley Green?

33% of homes were built before 1919 and 56% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

© 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.