17, West Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 April 1973. House. 1 related planning application.
17, West Street
- WRENN ID
- distant-brass-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 April 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- 17, West Street, Hertford, SG13 8EX
- OS grid reference
- TL 323 123
- Coordinates
- 51.79392, -0.08189
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 17, West Street is an early 17th-century house, with a 19th-century rear range, that has been altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. The house is timber-framed, with a colourwashed pebbledashed first floor and a colourwashed brick ground floor, constructed in English bond. The rear range is built of yellow stock brick in Flemish bond. The front has an old tiled roof, and the rear range has a hipped Welsh slated roof.
The front of the house is two storeys high, with attics and a basement. The first floor has two flush-set, multi-pane casement windows with a dripmoulding. The ground floor has a 3-light casement window and a central multi-panel door within a late 17th-century moulded architrave. A segmental relieving arch is visible above a blocked basement window. A carriageway to the left has twin battened doors with trellis-infilled ventilation panels above. The roof features two 20th-century dormers with hipped tiled roofs.
At the rear, the brickwork is colourwashed, and there is weatherboarding with a studded door with panels and segmental head, dated 1654. A low, two-storey rear range of yellow brick features a hipped Welsh slated roof and 9-pane sash windows on the first floor, although fenestration has been altered elsewhere. This range is shared with the adjacent No.15. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
17, West 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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 — 1 transaction since 2017
- 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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