48-52, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1977. House. 11 related planning applications.
48-52, High Street
- WRENN ID
- western-stronghold-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Hemel Hempstead MP: David Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 February 1977
- Type
- House
- Address
- 48-52, High Street, HP1 3AF
- OS grid reference
- TL 055 078
- Coordinates
- 51.75963, -0.47251
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a row of shops and offices on High Street, dating from 1888 and designed by George Low in a Jacobean style. It is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and has a Dutch gabled tiled roof. The building is three storeys high with a basement. The ground floor has shop windows. Upper floors feature stone mullioned sash windows, with two and three lights, set in chamfered reveals. There is a canted corner with a first-floor oriel window. The building is included on the list for its contribution to the group value of numbers 48 to 88 (even), numbers 94 to 100 (even), and a barn in the garden of numbers 62 and 64.
Local climate
48-52, 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 1998
- Related listed building consents — 11 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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