49, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1987. House.
49, High Street
- WRENN ID
- endless-casement-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- 49, High Street, Markyate
- OS grid reference
- TL 060 165
- Coordinates
- 51.83759, -0.46199
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
49 High Street is a house dating from the early 17th century or earlier, with a front made of 18th-century brick and a 20th-century south gable added where a new road was cut through. The heavy timber frame is exposed in the carriageway at the northern end, while an extension is covered in stuccoed brickwork. The house features steep old red tile roofs and is two stories tall, with three windows on the west-facing front. It has twin two-story hipped rear wings and a southeast rear outshut with a hipped dormer on the roof. There is an internal south gable chimney and a large chimney that backs onto the carriageway at the northern end of the building.
The west front has three upper windows, with a door located beneath the central window and a lower window on each side. The windows are flush-box sash with six-over-six panes, and there is a triple-sash window to the right of the door. The carriageway features large boarded double doors and a six-panel door, where the bottom two panels are flush-beaded and the others are raised and fielded. The exposed framing in the carriageway includes a chamfered axial beam with a hollow stop, the main framing of the northern gable end, and a cross-frame to the south of the chimney with large panels, along with the framing of the underbuilt front-wall jetty.
Local climate
49, 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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