128 listed buildings, 11 of them Grade II*

Abbot's GrangeGrade II* listedCourt FarmhouseGrade II* listedChurch of St MichaelGrade II listedSt Michael's CottageGrade II listedGarden Pavilion Approximately 30 Metres South East of Russell HouseGrade II listed+8See all photos

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.

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.

High Street38 listed · 1 II*

The Green5 listed

Church Street3 listed

Of the 128 entries, 47 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.

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.

The first 49 entries were listed in 1959. 71 came in 1987, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.

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.

For its size, Broadway has more listed heritage than 94% of UK towns. All told, the list holds 128 listed buildings, including Lygon Arms. On High Street alone there are 38 listed buildings. A conservation area protects part of it.

Most entries on the list, 79%, are houses, terraces and villas. The big year was 1987, when 71 of the 128 went on the list. The rest is about typical: like most towns its size, it has no Grade I building; and 17% of its homes were built before 1919, close to the 15% in the typical UK town.