16 and 17, Church Street is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1973. Shop and dwelling. 5 related planning applications.

16 and 17, Church Street

WRENN ID
narrow-tallow-gold
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Herefordshire, County of
Constituency
Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 October 1973
Type
Shop and dwelling
Address
16 and 17, Church Street, Hereford, HR1 2LR
OS grid reference
SO 509 399
Coordinates
52.05553, -2.7161
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

16 and 17 Church Street are shops and dwellings dating from the late 18th century. The buildings are constructed of brick and feature a hipped slate roof with a parapet on the right side. They rise to three storeys and have a four-window range. On the right, there are 6/6 sash windows with old glass, and above them, 3/6 sash windows. To the left, there are early 20th-century 2/2 sash windows, all set under gauged brick flat arches. There are also blind semicircular gauged brick arches and brick modillion eaves. The ground floor has 20th-century shop fronts and an entrance leading to the upper floors.

Inside No. 16, the ground floor has a late plastered ceiling frame, and the cellar is mainly stone-lined. In No. 17, the second floor features plank doors and a late plastered ceiling frame, along with a wall cupboard that has a 19th-century plank door. The ground floor has an exposed ceiling frame from the late period, and the cellar is also mainly stone-lined with chamfered ceiling beams.

Local climate

16 and 17, Church Street receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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