24 and 24a, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Uttlesford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 1972. Office. 2 related planning applications.
24 and 24a, High Street
- WRENN ID
- unlit-finial-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Uttlesford
- Constituency
- North West Essex MP: Mrs Kemi Badenoch (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 November 1972
- Type
- Office
- Address
- 24 and 24a, High Street, Saffron Walden, CB10 1AX
- OS grid reference
- TL 537 384
- Coordinates
- 52.02344, 0.23883
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
24 and 24A High Street are early 19th-century offices located in Saffron Walden. The building features cream Flemish bond gault brickwork and a gabled slate roof, with two gault brick stacks that have four linked octagonal shafts and one stack with six shafts. It stands three storeys tall.
The front elevation includes a recessed band of render off centre, a stucco string band, and a band at the impost level of the ground floor. The second floor has four 16-pane double-hung sash windows. The ground floor features an opening to the rear yard with a flat-topped arch, three 16-pane double-hung sash windows with semicircular arches in recessed panels, and outer semicircular rendered arches. There is a semicircular-headed entrance with a door that has six moulded panels. All arches have radial pattern top lights. The building also has a plinth and a basement light with a stone lintel.
The rear elevation has a deeper plan and includes a quadrant curved wall made of red header bond brickwork. Inside No. 24, there is an early 19th-century dogleg staircase with stick balusters, a curving handrail, and an upper section featuring a column newel post.
Local climate
24 and 24a, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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