59, 61, 63 and 65, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1967. House, inn. 4 related planning applications.

59, 61, 63 and 65, High Street

WRENN ID
crumbling-lime-dale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dacorum
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1967
Type
House, inn
Address
59, 61, 63 and 65, High Street, Markyate
OS grid reference
TL 060 165
Coordinates
51.83726, -0.46176
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · EPC · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

This is a house and adjoining inn, now divided into four separate houses, dating back to the 17th century or earlier. It has been significantly altered with 18th-century brick facades and rear extensions, and a 19th-century shopfront to number 61. The building is timber-framed and largely clad in red brick, with number 65 featuring a pattern of red and grey bricks. The roofs are steep and covered in old red tiles, with the rear ranges having hip roofs.

The frontages of numbers 59, 61, and 63 are uniform, with a wide carriageway running through the northern end of the block. The building is two stories high, facing west. A first-floor window has a two-light Yorkshire sliding casement. Above the carriageway is a finely detailed elliptical brick arch constructed with gauged red brick, featuring a keystone and impost blocks. Generally, the windows are sash windows; those on the first floor have 4/8 panes, while those on the ground floor have 8/8 panes. There is an eaves cornice along the front. Number 61 has a small shop window with pilasters and an entablature. The entrances include a small pointed door hood and plank door to number 59, a six-panel fielded door to number 61, and a panelled, half-glazed door to number 63.

Inside the carriageway, there are exposed heavy flat joists resting on a main axial beam, along with a fully framed partition on the south side. The south gable of number 63 reveals timbers from a collar truss and clasped-purlin roof. Number 65, formerly the Plough Inn until around 1918, is two stories high, with three windows and a central door. It has two-light casement windows with cambered arches on the ground floor. The entrance door is battened and has a reeded surround with mitred corners and a projecting cornice. The interior of number 65 contains a 17th-century staircase and panelling.

Local climate

59, 61, 63 and 65, 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
  • Related listed building consents — 4 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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