17 and 18, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wyre Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1980. Shop.
17 and 18, High Street
- WRENN ID
- last-window-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wyre Forest
- Constituency
- Wyre Forest MP: Mark Garnier (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1980
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 17 and 18, High Street, Kidderminster
- OS grid reference
- SO 832 766
- Coordinates
- 52.38797, -2.24788
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 17 and 18 on High Street are 18th-century buildings that stand three storeys tall, constructed of brick with a coped parapet and a hipped tile roof featuring a later ridge tile. The façade includes five windows, with glazing bars present only on the top floor. Brick voussoirs frame the windows, and there are stucco bands above and below the windows on the second floor. The buildings feature a modern shop front alongside an elaborately ornamented mid-19th-century shop front.
Local climate
17 and 18, High Street receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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