24 and 26, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 January 1952. A C17 House. 3 related planning applications.

24 and 26, High Street

WRENN ID
rooted-pavement-hawthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 January 1952
Type
House
Address
24 and 26, High Street, Shefford, SG17 5DG
OS grid reference
TL 142 390
Coordinates
52.03845, -0.33506
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Two houses, at 24 and 26 High Street, were likely originally a single property and feature shops on the ground floor. The building probably began as a 17th-century timber-framed structure, which was then encased in an early 18th-century brick facade, subsequently reworked in the 19th and 20th centuries. The front elevation is partly rendered and colourwashed, topped by a 20th-century tile roof. The facade has five windows. The building is two storeys high with attics. The ground floor now has two 20th-century shop fronts flanking a central passage entrance. The first floor contains three 20th-century casement windows and two early 19th-century sash windows with glazing bars and pedimented wooden valances. The attic has three box dormers. A moulded wooden eaves cornice runs along the top. An off-centre rainwater head indicates the date 1718.

Local climate

24 and 26, 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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