51 and 53, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. Commercial properties. 5 related planning applications.
51 and 53, High Street
- WRENN ID
- pale-doorway-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- South West Hertfordshire MP: Mr Gagan Mohindra (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1986
- Type
- Commercial properties
- Address
- 51 and 53, High Street, Kings Langley, WD4 9HU
- OS grid reference
- TL 072 026
- Coordinates
- 51.71218, -0.44942
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house, now divided into three commercial properties, dating from the 17th and early 18th centuries, with an extension added in the early 19th century (number 53). The building has a timber frame with dark weatherboarding at the north end, but a red brick front with blue headers. The south extension (number 53) is of lighter red brick. It has steep old red tile roofs, with the lower southern part hipped.
Number 51 is composed of two sections. The left-hand side has two flush, two-light casement windows, a segmental arch above a half-glazed door, and a shop window with a segmental plan and plastered reveals. The right-hand side is symmetrical, featuring two recessed sash windows with 8/8 panes, a large square sunk panel in between, and a pilastered shopfront with a fascia over two windows flanking a glazed door. Number 53, at the south, has a dentilled eaves course and segmental arches above recessed sash windows with 8/8 panes, above 20th-century shopfronts.
Local climate
51 and 53, High Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 8 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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