4, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1953. Commercial, residential. 1 related planning application.
4, High Street
- WRENN ID
- steep-wattle-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1953
- Type
- Commercial, residential
- Address
- 4, High Street, Kington, HR5 3BG
- OS grid reference
- SO 297 566
- Coordinates
- 52.20378, -3.02921
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 4 High Street is a house that has been converted into a shop and dwelling, dating from the 18th century. It features a stucco exterior and a composite tile roof. The building is three storeys high with a cellar and has a two-window range. The first and second floors have 20th-century 6/6 sash windows set between pairs of pilasters, with recessed panels. There are moulded architraves, a moulded band, and a frieze decorated with garlands at the eaves.
The shop front, added in the late 19th century, includes central margin-glazed double doors with a blocked overlight, flanked by plate-glass windows that have curved returns. The shop front is topped with an enriched cornice and a hood supported by brackets, featuring a panelled soffit. The entrance to the right has a 20th-century part-glazed panelled door with an overlight, framed by a 19th-century fluted architrave.
At the rear, there is a 19th-century 8/8 sash window and two 20th-century 6/6 sashes on the first and second floors. The ground floor lean-to has a late 19th-century tripartite window flanked by 19th-century 6/6 sashes, all under a 20th-century felt roof.
Local climate
4, 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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