98-110, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1986. Almshouse, dwelling. 5 related planning applications.
98-110, High Street
- WRENN ID
- fading-tracery-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1986
- Type
- Almshouse, dwelling
- Address
- 98-110, High Street, Watton-At-Stone, SG14 3SZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 302 192
- Coordinates
- 51.85669, -0.11036
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a row of seven almshouses, now converted into four dwellings, dating from 1867. They were likely designed by G. Devey for Lady Susan Smith of Woodhall Park. The building is constructed of red brick with stone dressings, with some sections finished in roughcast with fake timber framing. The roof is decorated with tiles laid in alternating bands of plain and sawtooth patterns, and features ridge tiles. The building has a double depth plan, with a 1:2:1:2:1 layout and projecting cross wings at the centre and ends. It is built in a Domestic Revival style, with a single storey and an attic to the central bay.
Each cross wing has a ground floor canted oriel window supported by brackets. The windows are tall, four-light casements with ovolo moulded surrounds and stop-chamfered return angles. The central gabled attic has fake timber framing that is corbelled out, supported by a stone course below stone corbels, a four-light casement, a datestone, and wavy bargeboards. The outer gables also feature fake timber framing with slightly projecting moulded tie beams with quatrefoils and wavy bargeboards. The connecting ranges have three-light casements with chamfered, segmental-headed surrounds, and two-stage buttresses between them.
The entrances, located at the ends of the connecting blocks, consist of half-glazed doors with four-centred arched heads and moulded brackets supporting gabled and raking hoods. The chimneys are axial, with paired diagonal shafts on the connecting ranges, while the outer wings feature paired octagonal shafts. The taller central ridge has a stack with four semi-octagonal shafts. The rear elevation mirrors the front, constructed of brick with cross wings, entrances in the connecting ranges, and chimneys with paired diagonal shafts. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
98-110, 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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 1999
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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