30, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1967. House, restaurant. 1 related planning application.
30, High Street
- WRENN ID
- wild-landing-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1967
- Type
- House, restaurant
- Address
- 30, High Street, Buntingford, SG9 9AQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 362 295
- Coordinates
- 51.94754, -0.01929
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 30 High Street is a house that has been converted into a restaurant. It dates back to the 16th century, with 17th century extensions at the rear and a 19th century shopfront. The building features an exposed timber frame with plastered panels on the jettied front, dark weatherboarding on the south gable, and white weatherboarding on the rear wing. It has a steep old red tile roof, while the rear wing is now covered with slate.
The structure is two stories tall, with a jettied street range that has two unequal bays. There is a carriageway leading to a yard at the south end, which has a gabled rear extension above it, and a long rear wing that extends in two stages along the north boundary. The front has two windows with close-studding and curved tension-bracing above the jetty, supported by bull-nose joists and heavy curved brackets at each end. The windows are four-light early 18th century flush casements with leaded glazing and iron opening lights.
The shopfront features a central doorway and divided windows framed by reeded pilasters, with a stallriser made of raised and fielded panels. There are boarded double doors leading to the carriageway. A central chimney is located on the front slope against the south side of the central partition. The rear range includes Gothic cast-iron small-paned casement windows. Inside, the building has exposed timbers, heavy flat joists, shutter grooves above the two front upper windows, and a collar-purlin roof supported by square crown-posts and longitudinal curved braces.
Local climate
30, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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