3, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. A C16 Shop.

3, High Street

WRENN ID
hallowed-pinnacle-juniper
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
Broxbourne MP: Lewis Cocking (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 January 1967
Type
Shop
Address
3, High Street, Stanstead Abbots
OS grid reference
TL 386 119
Coordinates
51.78882, 0.00827
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 3 High Street is a shop with upper floors, dating from the 16th century or earlier, and extended to the rear in the 17th century. The building is timber-framed and roughcast, featuring weatherboarding on the east flank at ground level and stucco on the front. The upper part of the front is temporarily covered in bit felt, and it has old red tiled gabled roofs.

Situated on a narrow and angled site, this two and a half storey building is roofed parallel to the street, with a front jetty and an internal gable chimney on the west side. There is a tall one-storey 17th-century shallow rear addition with a lower parallel pitched roof, which includes a large central chimney made of red brick. The west side of the building is part of a former gatehouse to the Red Lion Inn, now forming the weatherboarded and roughcast east side wall.

Inside, the crown-post and collar-purlin roof structure is exposed in the east gable. The heavy bull-nosed joists of the jetty have one heavy curved bracket remaining at the west end. The building features a small gabled dormer with a bargeboard similar to those on the Red Lion. The entrance includes a flush-panelled half-glazed door with pilasters on each side, and there are short similar pilasters framing a triple shop window with flush casement windows. The upper floor has a flush box of a sash window. This building is part of a group with the Red Lion and the Clock House.

Local climate

3, 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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