39 and 40, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 1976. Houses. 1 related planning application.
39 and 40, High Street
- WRENN ID
- moated-baluster-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 July 1976
- Type
- Houses
- Address
- 39 and 40, High Street, Kington
- OS grid reference
- SO 296 566
- Coordinates
- 52.20336, -3.03017
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
39 and 40 High Street are houses that have been converted into shops and dwellings, dating from the late 18th century. They are constructed of brick with ashlar detailing and feature a Welsh slate roof with tile-coped gable parapets. The building has three storeys and a four-window range. On the left side, there are two 18th-century 6/6 sash windows, while the right side has two 19th-century plain sashes. The windows are topped with gauged brick flat arches, and there are 3/6 sashes above them, along with moulded wood eaves.
The shopfront for No. 39 is from the 20th century, while No. 40 has an early 20th-century shopfront that includes a central half-glazed panelled door with a plain overlight, flanked by plate-glass windows with curved returns and moulded glazing bars. This is set beneath a moulded fascia board and hood, supported by panelled pilasters.
The left side of the building is finished in rubble, while the front is ashlar. There is a wing at the rear of the building, which has a 20th-century door in an altered opening beneath a stone flat arch, with a casement window above it in another altered opening under a brick flat arch. The rear of the building is brick, with a rendered gable on the wing of No. 40, and the wing of No. 39 features a steep-pitched Welsh slate roof and a brick stack.
Local climate
39 and 40, High Street receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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