1-3, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1983. Shop. 7 related planning applications.
1-3, High Street
- WRENN ID
- ghost-newel-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1983
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 1-3, High Street, Bishop's Stortford, CM23 2LS
- OS grid reference
- TL 486 213
- Coordinates
- 51.87123, 0.15825
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This property comprises numbers 1 and 3 High Street, dating to the mid-18th century and early 19th century. The roof is slate tile and features a mansard design with pargetting. The building is two and a half storeys high. The ground floor has a prominent, projecting double shop front dating to the early 19th century, with 27 panes of glass on each side of a modern door. The shop front fascia is adorned with carved consoles and a cornice. Above, four 18th-century sash windows are visible on the first floor, with a band and capping to the parapet. There are two modern, flat-roofed dormers. The interior includes a central dog leg staircase, with a curved sash window incorporated into the landing wall.
Local climate
1-3, High Street sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 2 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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