2 and 4, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1985. Houses. 7 related planning applications.
2 and 4, High Street
- WRENN ID
- other-mortar-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1985
- Type
- Houses
- Address
- 2 and 4, High Street, Shefford, SG17 5DG
- OS grid reference
- TL 143 391
- Coordinates
- 52.03875, -0.33439
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 2 and 4 High Street are houses that have been converted into a shop. They date from the early and later 19th century but encase a 17th-century building. The structure is made of red brick, partly rendered and tile hung, with clay tile roofs. Some significant timber framing can be seen internally in the southeast corner. The east elevation, facing Northbridge Street, is constructed of yellow brick. The building has an H-plan layout with a two-storey central block and two-storey cross-wings with attics. The outer gables feature a brick ground floor, a rendered first floor with mock timber framing, and attics adorned with fishscale tiles. The central block includes a 19th-century shop window on the left and a doorway beneath a sloping-roofed porch on the right. The first floor of each block has tripartite sash windows without glazing bars, while the cross-wing attics have single-light casements with glazing bars. The cross-wing gables are decorated with pierced wavy-edged bargeboards. On the west elevation, a 19th-century shop front projects at ground floor level, featuring pilasters with a moulded cornice. The first floor has three sashes with glazing bars, set beneath wooden valances with pediment heads.
Local climate
2 and 4, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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