74, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1987. Former tack room. 1 related planning application.
74, High Street
- WRENN ID
- veiled-quoin-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1987
- Type
- Former tack room
- Address
- 74, High Street, Markyate, AL3 8LF
- OS grid reference
- TL 061 163
- Coordinates
- 51.8358, -0.46044
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a former tack room, with accommodation above, situated beside the carriageway leading to the yard of the Sebright Arms Inn, now separate commercial premises. The building dates from the late 18th or early 19th century and is constructed of red brick with a slate roof. The north wall of the carriageway features timber studs filled with painted brickwork. The building is low, three stories high, and two windows wide, facing east. It has a central door, a shopfront on the right-hand side, and a wide carriageway on the left. It contains flush-box sash windows with 6/6 panes, and flat-gauged arches above the first-floor windows. A rectangular fanlight is above the front door. The shopfront includes a recessed bow window with small panes of glass. The building is included on the list for group value.
Local climate
74, High Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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 0.3°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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2004
- 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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