Yes, and with less fuss than almost anywhere old enough to have a parish council. There are four listed buildings. There's no conservation area. There's no scheduled monument in the way either. The planners here have very little heritage to protect, which leaves your extension competing mostly with your budget.
Four Marks has 4 listed buildings: 0 at Grade I, 0 at Grade II* and all 4 at Grade II. Listing means any change that affects a building's character, inside or out, needs listed building consent on top of any planning permission, and doing the work without it is a criminal offence rather than a paperwork slip. With four in the whole village, the chance your house is one of them is small, and the conveyancing searches will tell you if it is. There are also no conservation areas and no scheduled monuments within the area. The Bronze Age burial mounds that do exist are recorded outside that boundary, so the village's oldest residents aren't holding up anyone's patio.
The neighbours are clearly not holding back. The planning records for the area show 1,338 applications from March 2024 to June 2026, and 587 in the most recent twelve months to June 2026. That's a lot of people with plans for side returns, garages and rooflights. The idea that you can't touch anything round here doesn't survive a look at the planning portal.
In practice, with no conservation area and so few listed buildings, most houses in Four Marks should get the full standard permitted development rights. Those let you build many single-storey rear extensions, some loft conversions and a range of smaller changes without a full planning application, within set size limits. Anything bigger, anything facing the road, or anything on a house where those rights have been removed by an earlier consent needs a proper application. Check the property's planning history before you buy. A previous owner's permission can come with conditions that quietly remove rights the house would otherwise have.
Your freedom to extend is one of Four Marks's real strengths: almost no heritage protection, and plenty of neighbours already building. The limits here are your budget and your plot, and the planners won't add many more.