Apart from the Church of St Mary the Virgin, few buildings remain from the period before the dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536. The Hospice (a branch of Harrold priory) was demolished in the 1870s along with the great mediaeval tithe barn and the old Manor House. However, parts of the Old Vicarage and the Duck End Farmhouse and Picts Hill House (formerly in Stevington Parish) can be dated from the late mediaeval period.
Much more remains from the 17th Century including the Baptist Meeting, but there are many attractive stone cottages dating from the middle of that Century. In addition there are numerous fine barns, some thatched, which date from the 18th Century.
Stevington's windmill is one of the few surviving examples of a post mill. It dates from the late 18th Century and is basically in working order, though no corn has been ground there since 1936.
Many brick cottages date from the 19th Century, some constructed from brick made at an old brickfield in the Parish. The Village has had its fair share of modern development of variable architectural quality.
The enclosure of land over the years and especially after the statutory enclosure of 1805-6 changed the aspect of the village in creating many more fields and hedges than there were under the great three-field system of the Middle Ages. Moreover, the roads are vastly different having been altered by the Enclosure Award and widened over the years by stealth. Some of the old tracks have fallen into disuse, though there remains a rich pattern of public footpaths.
