4, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1984. House.

4, High Street

WRENN ID
iron-keystone-briar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 July 1984
Type
House
Address
4, High Street, Buntingford
OS grid reference
TL 362 293
Coordinates
51.94617, -0.01841
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 4 High Street is a house that has been converted into a shop. It dates back to the 16th century and was altered in the 17th century. The building features a timber frame set on a low stucco plinth and is covered with roughcast and a steep old red tile roof. It is a small, 3-bay, 2-storey structure facing west, with a 18th-century or later external gable chimney on the north side. There is a lower extension to the south that crosses the former carriageway.

The street-facing side has three small, 2-light, flush casement windows on the upper floor. On the ground floor, there are two small 19th-century shop windows flanking a central door that has a flat hood supported by shaped brackets. To the right of the door, there is another 2-light casement window.

Inside, the building retains exposed timbers, including the close-studded front wall on the first floor, straight braces supporting the cambered tie-beams of the concealed side-purlin roof, jowled posts, a heavy bracket supporting the cross-beam on the ground floor, a chamfered axial floor beam in the middle bay, and an edge-halved scarf joint in the front wallplate with bridled butts.

Local climate

4, High 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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