8, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1985. House.
8, High Street
- WRENN ID
- tall-lead-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- 8, High Street, Shefford
- OS grid reference
- TL 143 391
- Coordinates
- 52.03861, -0.33464
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 8 High Street is a house with a shop on the ground floor, dating from the 18th century and likely incorporating an earlier structure, with alterations made in the 19th century. The building features timber framed construction, with colourwashed roughcast render on the east elevation and brick facing on the west and front, which is also colourwashed. The roof is covered with 20th-century tiles.
The house is two storeys high and has a three-window range. On the ground floor, there are two 19th-century shop bay windows with simply moulded cornices, flanking a central part-glazed door that is set beneath a gabled hood supported by cut brackets. The first floor has two sash windows with glazing bars on either side of a central blind window, and there is a brick band at the first floor level.
Local climate
8, High Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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