H H Dickman, Chemists is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 2003. Commercial building. 3 related planning applications.
H H Dickman, Chemists
- WRENN ID
- far-solder-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 May 2003
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- H H Dickman, Chemists, 224, High Street, Berkhamsted, HP4 1BB
- OS grid reference
- SP 990 078
- Coordinates
- 51.76103, -0.56605
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
H H Dickman, Chemists is a late 19th-century house that was converted for chemist use in 1914, featuring a shop front and fittings from 1920. The building is constructed of brick with a glazed wood frame shop front. The ground floor serves as a shop with offices at the rear, while the upper levels provide residential and additional shop accommodation.
The exterior showcases an advanced shop front with a gilded fascia that reads 'CHEMIST H.H. DICKMAN OPTICIANS'. It has slender colonnette mullions, with three bays on the left side. The central bay is advanced and features curved edges above a shallow marble plinth. To the right is a recessed entrance bay with shallow glazed cabinets on the sides and a deep glazed display cabinet at the back. A glazed door on the left has a diamond mullion overlight, and there is a continuous band of glazed overlights with diamond glazing bars above each bay, paired over the entrance.
Inside, the ground floor includes the shop at the front, a small raised room to the right, and a raised dispensing department at the rear. The front display window has glazed doors leading into the shop. There are fitted glazed cabinets on the right wall, shelving on the left wall with cabinets below that contain multiple small drawers labeled for drugs and chemicals. Free-standing glazed mahogany framed cabinets serve as display counters. At the back, there is a tall shelving unit with a mirrored back and a raised sign that reads 'DISPENSING DEPARTMENT.' The interior features a full-height staircase and tiled floors, with the primary interest being the ground floor shop.
Local climate
H H Dickman, Chemists 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 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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