81, 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 building.

81, HIGH STREET (See details for further address information)

WRENN ID
grey-loft-thistle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dacorum
Constituency
Hemel Hempstead MP: David Taylor (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 June 1948
Type
Commercial building
Address
81, HIGH STREET (See details for further address information), 83
OS grid reference
TL 055 079
Coordinates
51.76021, -0.47246
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 81 High Street is an early 18th-century building featuring a rainwater head dated 1726 with the initials H and I M. It is constructed of brown and grey brick in header bond, with a Flemish bond parapet and red brick dressings. The building stands three storeys tall, with moulded brick bands at the second floor and eaves level, and Doric end pilasters. The central ground floor has a carriageway flanked by shop bay windows, all beneath a continuous tiled pentice roof. There are five flush sash windows with glazing bars on the first floor, set under segmental arches. The second floor has three similar windows and two dummy windows. This building is part of a group that includes Nos. 57 and 83 (odd) and Nos. 63A and 79A.

Local climate

81, 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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