71, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1948. House.
71, High Street
- WRENN ID
- far-spandrel-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Hemel Hempstead MP: David Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 June 1948
- Type
- House
- Address
- 71, High Street, HP1 3AF
- OS grid reference
- TL 055 079
- Coordinates
- 51.75986, -0.4723
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 71 on High Street is an earlier 18th century house featuring a rainwater head dated 1730, which has the initials N above I S. The building is constructed from plum-coloured brick with header courses only, accented by red brick dressings. It stands three storeys tall beneath a low-pitched Welsh slate roof that has paired brackets at the eaves cornice. The property includes a 19th-century shop cornice and has 19th and 20th-century windows. The upper floors are adorned with four segmentally arched sash windows that have glazing bars. The first floor features tall key blocks with moulded cornices, while the second floor has a central pair of dummy windows. No. 71 is part of a group with Nos. 57 and 83 (odd) and No. 63A and 79A.
Local climate
71, 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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