IChurch · listed 1959The Parish Church of St MargaretPhoto: Dan Gregory · CC BY-SA 2.0
Photo: Colin Smith · CC BY-SA 2.0–Not graded
History of Warnham · Historic England
35 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Warnham’s built-up area, 420 for every 10,000 residents. Grade II covers 34 of Warnham’s listed buildings. 34% of its homes were built before 1919.
Listed buildings
35
420 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
0
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
1 registered park or garden
Homes built before 1919
34%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Landmarks of Warnham
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Photos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.
The map
Where Warnham’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park.
Grade IPark or garden
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
35 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I0 Grade II*34 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 I
The Grade I listed building in Warnham
Buildings of exceptional interest, about 2.5% of all listed buildings. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
Historic streets
Friday Street has the most listed buildings
Streets by the listed entries with an address on them. One entry can be a whole terrace, so long rows count once.
Friday Street6 listed
School Hill5 listed
Church Street3 listed
Of the 35 entries, 14 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.
What’s protected
Most of Warnham’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas27
Inns, shops & warehouses4
Churches, chapels & priories3
Public & civic buildings1
27 entries (77%) are houses, terraces and villas. 3 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings.
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
34 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 34 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
Apple Tree CottageApril Cottage Bell CottageBank Cottage Rose CottageBarn to North East of the Old Manor HouseChapel CottagesChurch CroftCobblersLodge CottageNewman's CottageOak BeamsOld DennePan's GardenStables Adjoining No 2 (The Sussex Oak Inn) on South SideThe Former Village SchoolThe Greets InnThe Old ForgeThe Old Manor HouseThe Sussex Oak InnTimber Framed Outbuilding to North of Weston PlaceWeston Place12, 14 and 16, School Hill18, 20 and 22, School Hill2, School Hill30 and 32 Friday Street33 Friday Street37 and 39 Friday Street4 and 6, School Hill42 and 44, Church Street49 Friday Street58, 60 and 64 Friday Street6 and 8, Friday Street6, 8 and 10, Church Street62, 64 and 66, Church Street8 and 10, School Hill
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 22% of Warnham
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
Warnham 197617 ha
17 hain conservation areas, of 80 ha inside the built-up area.
30 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 Warnham’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1980
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1980 · 271959 · 8
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 8 entries were listed in 1959, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 27 came in 1980, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 0 have been added in the last 15 years.
Monuments & landscapes
Monuments, parks and gardens
Designations that overlap the town by a tenth of their area or half a hectare.
1 registered park or garden
Warnham CourtGrade II
Homes by age
34% of Warnham’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
27%
Before 1900
6.4%
1900–18
3.2%
1919–29
4.3%
1930s
5.3%
1945–54
15%
1955–64
7.5%
1965–72
5.3%
1973–82
7.5%
1983–92
6.4%
1993–99
7.5%
2000–08
1.1%
2009–15
3.2%
2016–25
WarnhamEngland & Wales
27% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1955–64, which added 15% 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 (12 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Warnham
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warnham | 834 | 35 | 1 | — |
| Broadbridge Heath | 6,357 | 15 | 0 | C− |
| Horsham | 50,211 | 135 | 1 | B− |
| Slinfold | 1,163 | 24 | 0 | A− |
| Rudgwick | 2,145 | 38 | 1 | A− |
| Southwater | 11,204 | 20 | 0 | C |
| Mannings Heath | 1,137 | 3 | 0 | C+ |
| Barns Green | 1,107 | 8 | 0 | B− |
In brief
Warnham in brief
More of Warnham’s homes are old than in most places: 34% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 35 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I. A conservation area has protected part of it since 1976.
Most entries on the list, 77%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1980, when 27 of the 35 went on the list. Beyond that, George Cox, Sr. (1873) was born here before 1900.
Questions about Warnham’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Warnham?
Historic England lists 35 buildings inside Warnham’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 0 Grade II* and 34 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Warnham?
One: The Parish Church of St Margaret.
Which street in Warnham has the most listed buildings?
Friday Street (6), School Hill (5) and Church Street (3) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.
How many conservation areas are there in Warnham?
1, covering about 17 hectares of the town. The largest is Warnham.
When were Warnham’s buildings listed?
The first in 1959; the most, 27, in 1980.
How old are the homes in Warnham?
34% of homes were built before 1919 and 41% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
Warnham 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 · Historic England conservation areas (supplied by local planning authorities; October 2026). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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