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History of Sambourne · Historic England

11 listed buildings

On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Sambourne’s built-up area, 468 for every 10,000 residents. Every listed building in Sambourne is Grade II. 30% of its homes were built before 1919.

Listed buildings
11
468 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
30%
typical UK town 15%
The map

Where Sambourne’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.

11 listed buildings by grade
0 Grade I0 Grade II*11 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.

Grade II

11 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 11 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Conservation areas

1 conservation area covers 100% of Sambourne

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

No data available for publication by HE33 ha
33 hain conservation areas, of 33 ha inside the built-up area.

11 of the 11 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 Sambourne’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1985

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

1985 · 7
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The first 3 entries were listed in 1969. 7 came in 1985, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

Homes by age

30% of Sambourne’s homes were built before 1919

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

28%
Before 1900
2%
1900–18
4%
1919–29
5%
1930s
6%
1945–54
13%
1955–64
2%
1965–72
4%
1973–82
5%
1983–92
19%
1993–99
2%
2000–08
2%
2009–15
8%
2016–25
SambourneEngland & Wales

28% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1993–99, 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 (3 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.

Neighbours

Listed buildings in the places around Sambourne

TownPeopleListedGrade IHistory
Sambourne235110—
Astwood Bank3,24870C+
Studley6,039150C+
Redditch81,634440C
Alcester6,4251212A−
Inkberrow1,817231B−
Henley-in-Arden3,0011152A
Bidford-on-Avon5,825240C+
In brief

Sambourne in brief

More of Sambourne’s homes are old than in most places: 30% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 11 listed buildings. A conservation area protects part of it. The big year was 1985, when 7 of the 11 went on the list.

Questions about Sambourne’s history

How many listed buildings are there in Sambourne?

Historic England lists 11 buildings inside Sambourne’s built-up area: 0 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 11 Grade II.

How many conservation areas are there in Sambourne?

1, covering about 33 hectares of the town. The largest is No data available for publication by HE.

When were Sambourne’s buildings listed?

The first in 1969; the most, 7, in 1985.

How old are the homes in Sambourne?

30% of homes were built before 1919 and 39% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).

Sambourne 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.