16 and 18, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 February 1977. A Georgian Commercial building. 8 related planning applications.
16 and 18, High Street
- WRENN ID
- quiet-banister-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Hemel Hempstead MP: David Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 February 1977
- Type
- Commercial building
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- 16 and 18, High Street, HP1 3AE
- OS grid reference
- TL 055 076
- Coordinates
- 51.7579, -0.47219
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The buildings at 16 and 18 High Street date primarily from the 18th century, although the main structure is likely earlier, from the 16th or early 17th century. They are situated on the west side of High Street. The front facade is of colour-washed brick with a hipped roof covered in old tiles, hidden behind a parapet. The ground floor contains a modern shop on the right and a 19th-century shop on the left, the latter featuring a shop front with four segmentally arched lights. The first floor has three windows, two of which have been altered, and one original sash window with glazing bars. The side and back elevations reveal an exposed timber framework with brick nogging, including gabled back elevations. Numbers 16 and 18 are historically linked as a group with numbers 23 to 29 (odd) Queensway.
Local climate
16 and 18, 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 — 2 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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