Photo: Colin Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0Old homes in The Sands: 36% built before 1919
For The Sands, that is 2 times the typical town’s share, 15%. Historic England lists no buildings inside The Sands’s built-up area.
Listed buildings near The Sands
The nearest places with Grade I listed buildings, within 25 km.
36% of The Sands’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
31% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was the 1930s, 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 (3 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
The Sands in brief
Old houses are part of The Sands’s character: 36% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. Nothing in The Sands is on the list; the nearest place with Grade I buildings is Tilford, 2.6 km away.
The Sands has no History Grade.
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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. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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