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

2, High Street

WRENN ID
odd-basalt-ochre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
Broxbourne MP: Lewis Cocking (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 January 1967
Type
House
Address
2, High Street, Stanstead Abbots
OS grid reference
TL 386 119
Coordinates
51.78864, 0.00825
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 2 High Street is a house that has been converted into offices. It dates from the late 17th century and was refronted around 1715. The building was extended on both sides in the 18th century, and these extensions were refronted to match the central section in the 19th century. It is a two-storey and attic 'Queen Anne' style house made of red brick, featuring a steep old red tiled roof with hipped dormers. The rear and end walls are now roughcast.

Originally, the house had a symmetrical two-room plan with a central passage and a small square stair tower at the rear. There is a one-storey gabled rear wing with a large side chimney that has a diagonally set square shaft. A late 17th-century cross window with leaded glazing and an iron casement remains on the upper level of the rear wall. The rear also features an eaves cornice above a two-light hipped dormer.

The lower two-storey extensions to the east and west have a lower double gabled rear wing on the west side. The front of the house is made of fine red brick with a parapet that conceals two hipped dormers. The placement of the openings is slightly asymmetrical. There is a low plastered plinth, a floor band in rubbed brick, and a dentilled cornice. The flat arches, window jambs, and corners are all in red gauged brick. The slightly recessed box sashes have moulded architraves and 6/6 panes.

The central door features a moulded flat hood supported by large shaped brackets, positioned between plain pilasters. The double doors and fanlight are likely from the 19th century. The parapet is roughcast below a stone coping. The lower extensions on each side are set back slightly and have roughcast parapets above tiled roofs, with 19th-century moulded brick cornices at a lower level. The left side of the building has no notable features but includes a floor band, two recessed sash windows, and a door with a hood similar to the central one, flanked by two narrower sash windows with gauged arches. Additionally, there is a large wrought iron bracket for an inn sign at the junction of the centre and the west extension.

Local climate

2, 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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