68, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1948. House. 1 related planning application.

68, High Street

WRENN ID
north-pillar-onyx
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dacorum
Constituency
Hemel Hempstead MP: David Taylor (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 June 1948
Type
House
Address
68, High Street, HP1 3AQ
OS grid reference
TL 054 079
Coordinates
51.7601, -0.47287
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 68 on High Street is a 18th-century building featuring a front made of colour-washed brick and plaster, topped with an old tiled roof that has two gabled dormers. The main structure is timber framed, with the timbers exposed on the interior. The building has two storeys and attics. The ground floor has a central doorway flanked by two bay windows with glazing bars, all covered by a continuous flat roof. The first floor showcases three plaster rusticated Doric pilasters and two flush sash windows with glazing bars, which are set beneath ornamental raised plaster labels. There is a plain frieze and cornice above. This building is part of a group that includes Nos 48 to 88 (even), Nos 94 to 100 (even), and a barn in the garden of Nos 62 and 64.

Local climate

68, 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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