47, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 1972. A Late C18 or early C19 Commercial. 4 related planning applications.
47, High Street
- WRENN ID
- little-cellar-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 November 1972
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 47, High Street, Saffron Walden, CB10 1AR
- OS grid reference
- TL 537 384
- Coordinates
- 52.02278, 0.23877
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 47 High Street is a shop and offices dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. The building is timber-framed and rendered, topped with a plain tile gambrel roof that features a stack near the north end. It has two storeys with attics, and includes two flat-roofed dormers with double-hung sashes; one dormer has small panes while the other has a single central vertical glazing bar. The building has a painted boarded parapet and a delicate painted timber cornice adorned with paired flat dentils.
On the first floor, there are two canted bays with double-hung sashes that have central vertical glazing bars, along with a similar central window that features coloured glass margins, flanked by thin attached columns. The ground floor boasts a high-quality full-width shopfront from the 19th century, which includes a fascia, consoles, and a combination of two wide and one narrow glass panes divided by column mullions with capitals, topped by a fan-decorated half arch. There is a recessed entrance, and some of the timber framing is exposed on the first floor, made from secondhand oak and softwood.
Local climate
47, High Street sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.4°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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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