42, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. Commercial premises. 1 related planning application.
42, High Street
- WRENN ID
- seventh-copper-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Commercial premises
- Address
- 42, High Street, Ware, SG12 9BY
- OS grid reference
- TL 358 142
- Coordinates
- 51.81072, -0.03033
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a mid-19th century commercial premises with living accommodation above, now used as offices. The building is constructed of stucco over brickwork, with a Welsh slate roof. It is three storeys high.
The first floor features two sash windows with divided glazing, set within panelled surrounds that have paterae (ornamental roundels) and projecting moulded cornices. The second floor has two lower sash windows, similarly treated with panelled surrounds. Panelled pilasters are located at the left and right ends of the front facade, topped with Corinthian capitals. A cavetto moulded eaves cornice runs along the top of the building.
The ground floor has an elaborate 19th-century shopfront, framed by stucco pilasters with foliated capitals and coved console brackets. The shopfront fascia features a dentil frieze and moulded cornice. There is a recessed central modern entrance door, and a modern brick stall riser to the shopfront. A modern entrance door is located on the left side, framed by reeded pilasters, moulded cills, and cornices.
The rear elevation, facing East Street, is three storeys high, with 20th-century brick infill on the ground floor. Above, the stucco facade has three 20th-century sash windows on both the first and second floors. The building is described in detail by Forrester in Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware (1964).
Local climate
42, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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