5-8, Castle Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1973. Commercial building. 6 related planning applications.
5-8, Castle Street
- WRENN ID
- late-ashlar-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1973
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 5-8, Castle Street, Berkhamsted, HP4 2BQ
- OS grid reference
- SP 994 077
- Coordinates
- 51.7597, -0.56101
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building at 5-8 Castle Street dates from the early to mid-19th century. It is constructed of plum-coloured brick with red brick dressings and a Welsh slate roof. The two-storey building features a brick and bracketed cornice and five first-floor Doric pilasters. It has sash windows with glazing bars, some with louvred shutters; the ground floor windows have keystones. An elliptically arched carriageway is located on the right side, leading to a pair of twelve-panelled doors. To the left is an earlier 19th-century shop window with glazing bars, slender pilasters, a frieze and cornice that extends over the door, and an oblong fanlight set within a panelled reveal surrounded by reeded pilasters. Numbers 5, 6, and 7 have similar doorways with a segmental curve to the pilasters. In the centre and on the left, elliptically arched passage entries are marked by imposts and keystones. Numbers 1 to 9, along with 11, 12, and 12A, form a visually cohesive group.
Local climate
5-8, Castle 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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 10 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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