30, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1974. Shop, office.
30, High Street
- WRENN ID
- stony-slate-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1974
- Type
- Shop, office
- Address
- 30, High Street, Ware
- OS grid reference
- TL 359 142
- Coordinates
- 51.81059, -0.0299
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 30 High Street is a shop with offices above, which was formerly used as living accommodation. It dates from the late 16th century and features a timber-framed structure. The first floor is covered in 19th-century colourwashed stucco, while the attic gable is finished in pebbledash. The building has an old tiled roof with a gable facing the street and consists of two storeys and attics.
The first floor includes 1980s paired casement windows that replaced a former three-light sash window, alongside one sash window with divided glazing that is flush set with exposed boxes and has a moulded architrave in the attic. The ground floor has a significantly altered 19th-century shopfront, featuring an entrance door on the right and a closed display window divided by a central mullion. There are timber pilasters on either side of the shopfront, topped with a modern boxed fascia.
The north elevation, which faces East Street, also has two storeys. The ground floor has been partly rebuilt with modern stucco and a deep fascia. Above this is a projecting gabled wing that is plastered and has weatherboard cladding on the east side, with one casement window. The roof of this gabled projection is modern and pantiled, and it forms an outshoot to the main two-storey and attic structure facing High Street.
Local climate
30, High Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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