There are over 130 buildings within the town that are on the statutory list of Buildings of Architectural or Historical Interest maintained by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport.
Listing of buildings helps acknowledge and understand our shared history. It marks and celebrates a building’s special architectural and historic interest, and also brings it under the protection of the planning system so that some thought will be taken about its future.
The national listing system allocates each building within three grades
Grade I buildings are of exceptional interest, sometimes considered to be internationally important. Just 2.5% of all listed buildings are Grade I.
Grade II* buildings are particularly important buildings of more than special interest. 5.5% of all listed buildings are Grade II*.
Grade II buildings are nationally important and of special interest. 92% of listed buildings are in this class.
The full list of Stowmarket’s listed buildings is set out below – as we continue work on this website we intend to provide more information about these buildings and add some photographs. Until then English Heritage’s Images of England website provides a description of most of these buildings together with a photograph. Just follow this link:-
If you enter Stowmarket into the search facility the first 30 or so items will be listed buildings in the various Stowmarket Roads and Streets of surrounding villages. Stowmarket’s listed buildings follow in the sequence. Most of the photographs were taken in 1999.
An alternative is to use Historic England’s National Heritage List for England. Searching this for “Stowmarket” gives up-to-date information on each listed building and a map showing location, but no photograph.
Grade I
Church of St Peter and St Mary, Church Walk
Grade II*
(Listed alphabetically by street name, except for museum entries)
Edgar’s Farmhouse – Museum of East Anglian Life
The Barn, Museum of East Anglian Life
Valley Farmhouse, Combs Lane
Abbot’s Hall, Crowe Street
The Cedars Hotel, Needham Road
The Meadlands, Needham Road
3 Station Road
Lynton House, 10 Station Road
The Stricklands, Stricklands Road
The Rookery, 15 & 15A Tavern Street
Grade II
(Listed alphabetically by street name)
Albert Mill, Bond Street
Bury Lodge, 13 Bury Road
1&3 Bury Street
9 & 11 Bury Street
13 Bury Street
15, 17 & 19 Bury Street
21, 21A & 23 Bury Street
25 Bury Street
27 Bury Street
33 35 & 35A Bury Street
37 Bury Street
Denmark House, 41 Bury Street
101 Bury Street
103 Bury Street
6 & 8 Bury Street
10A Bury Street
22, 22A, &24 Bury Street
26 Bury Street
48 – 56 Bury Street
Bethesda Chapel, Bury Street
82 & 84 Bury Street
88 Bury Street
92 Bury Street
96 Bury Street
100 Bury Street
102 & 104 Bury Street
1 Buttermarket
3 & 5 Buttermarket
2, 4 & 6 Buttermarket
7 Church Walk
14 & 15 Church Walk
18-26 Church Walk
Group of four chest tombs south of church nave, Church Walk
Monument 6m south east of church chancel, Church Walk
Monument 20m south east of church chancel, Church Walk
Oakwood, 18 Combs Lane
22 Combs Lane
Valley Farmhouse Barn, Combs Lane
Sheepcote Hall, Creeting Road
Sheepcote Hall Barn, Creeting Road
Sheepcote Hall Stables and Hayloft, Creeting Road
Walnut Tree Cottage, Creeting Road
6 & 8 Crowe Street
10 Crowe Street
12 Crowe Street
14 Crowe Street
18 & 20 Crowe Street
Abbot’s Hall enclosed garden walls and attached greenhouse, Crowe Street
Abbot’s Hall fishing lodge, Crowe Street
Abbott’s Hall stables, Crowe Street
Wellington House, 2 Finborough Road
The Firs, 81 Finborough Road
The Magpie Inn, The Ford
3 The Ford
10 The Ford
Chilton Court, Gainsborough Road
Chilton Hall, Holst Mead
Chilton Hall barn, Holst Mead
The Limes 27 Ipswich Road
Verandah Cottage, 29 Finborough Road
Ford Millhouse 48 Ipswich Road
1&3 Ipswich Street
5 Ipswich Street
7 Ipswich Street
23 Ipswich Street
25 Ipswich Street
Old Fox Hotel, 27 Ipswich Street
31 & 31A Ipswich Street
33 & 33A Ipswich Street
Royal Oak Public House, 43 Ipswich Street
67 Ipswich Street
69 Ipswich Street
Old Malthouse, 129 Ipswich Street
4 & 6 Ipswich Street
Prezzo’s (formerly Dukes Head Inn), Ipswich Street
13 Marriott’s Walk
1 & 1A Market Place
3 Market Place
5 Market Place
7 Market Place
National Westminster Bank, Market Place
2 Market Place
4 & 6 Market Place
8 & 12 Market Place
14 Market Place
Council Offices and Oak Cottage, 1, 3 & 5 Milton Road
The Willows 59 Needham Road
Old Timbers, 65 Needham road
2 & 4 Needham Road
28 Needham Road
30 Needham Road
The Ashes, Newton Road
Chelsea Cottage, Pound Lane
Methodist Church, Regent Street
Queen’s Head public house, 1 Station Road
7, 9 & 9A Station Road
11 & 13 Station Road
19 & 19A Station Road
Gipping House, 2 Station Road
The Maltings. Station Road
Stowmarket Railway Station, Station Road
Norton House, Stowupland Road
Uplands, Stowupland Road
35 & 37 Stowupland Street
39 & 41 Stowupland Street
61 & 63 Stowupland Street
The Pickerel Inn, 65 Stowupland Street
18 Stowupland Street
22, 24, 26 & 26A Stowupland Street
Number 3 and attached workshop, Tavern Street
5 Tavern Street
7 & 9 Tavern Street
13 Tavern Street
12 & 14 Tavern Street
16 & 18 Tavern Street
Stow House, 20 Tavern Street
86 Union Street
34 & 36 Violet Hill Road
Evelyn Fison House, Violet Hill Road
Stowmarket Society 