34, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
34, High Street
- WRENN ID
- turning-basalt-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- 34, High Street, Shefford, SG17 5DG
- OS grid reference
- TL 142 390
- Coordinates
- 52.03827, -0.33552
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house, originally built in the 17th century, with shops occupying the ground floor. It is a timber-framed building that was later refronted in the 19th century with a colourwashed stucco facade. The roof is covered with clay tiles. Originally designed with a 2-room plan, the house extends over two storeys. The ground floor is now occupied by two 20th-century shop fronts. The first floor features two pairs of sash windows, arranged asymmetrically. The exterior features moulded stucco quoins and a parapet cornice, which includes a small arched section in the centre. A substantial red brick chimney stack, with a moulded string course and a pair of diagonal shafts, is located on the right-hand end. A 19th-century integral red brick stack is present on the left-hand gable end.
Local climate
34, 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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