87, 87B and 87C High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1995. Former farmhouse.

87, 87B and 87C High Street

WRENN ID
slow-ledge-ash
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 December 1995
Type
Former farmhouse
Address
87, 87B and 87C High Street, Henlow, SG16 6AB
OS grid reference
TL 176 386
Coordinates
52.03352, -0.28625
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos. 87, 87B, and 87C on High Street is a former farmhouse that has been subdivided. The building dates from the early 16th century or earlier, with extensions from the 17th and 18th centuries, and has been refenestrated in the 19th and 20th centuries. It has a timber frame with an exposed gable featuring jowled posts and diagonal bracing at the rear, while the rest of the structure is mainly brick, which is mostly painted. The roof is tiled and has a brick chimney stack located in the center of the range and at one end.

No. 87 is one storey with attics at the front, featuring a gabled dormer, and two storeys at the rear, which has decorative tiles above the brickwork. It has two casement windows and a gabled porch that is tile-hung and painted brick. Nos. 87B and 87C form an L-shape and are two storeys high, with three windows on the main range. The front has one 20th-century casement window and one mid-19th-century casement window with vertical glazing bars. The rear features a projecting timber-framed gable.

Interior details include a frame with curved braces and a curved tie beam, a roof with coupled rafters, through purlins, and collar beams, as well as a mid-17th-century axial beam that has a chamfer, fillet, tongue, and triangle.

This building was once owned by the Wrest Park Estate and is depicted on an estate map of Henlow from 1718.

Local climate

87, 87B and 87C 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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