79 AND 79A, HIGH STREET (See details for further address information) is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1948. Commercial. 1 related planning application.
79 AND 79A, HIGH STREET (See details for further address information)
- WRENN ID
- graven-jade-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Hemel Hempstead MP: David Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 June 1948
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 79 AND 79A, HIGH STREET (See details for further address information), HP1 3AH
- OS grid reference
- TL 055 079
- Coordinates
- 51.76008, -0.47248
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 79 and 79A on High Street are buildings from the 16th and 17th centuries. They feature a timber frame that is partly plastered and have old tiled roofs. The buildings are two storeys high with attics and include two gabled dormers. There are three modern semi-circular bowed shop windows on the ground floor, along with casement and sash windows on the first floor. To the left, there is a cartway beneath a taller structure. The shop windows are covered by pentice tiled roofs. Historically, Nos 75 and 77 were known as the Mermaid Inn until 1789. Nos 57 and 83 (odd) and No 63A and 79A are part of a group of buildings.
Local climate
79 AND 79A, HIGH STREET (See details for further address information) 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1997
- 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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