Searings Motorcycles is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1949. House.
Searings Motorcycles
- WRENN ID
- heavy-chimney-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1949
- Type
- House
- Address
- Searings Motorcycles, 23, North Street, Bishop's Stortford, CM23 2LD
- OS grid reference
- TL 486 215
- Coordinates
- 51.8723, 0.15823
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Searings Motorcycles is a 18th century remodelling of a 16th century timber-framed house. The building features painted plaster and a modern red tile roof. It is two and a half storeys tall and has a T-plan layout with a projecting wing at the north end, which has a hipped roof and one first floor sash window. The main part of the building has three sash windows. The ground floor has been converted into a modern shop. There are also two flat top dormers and a weatherboarded rear extension that has an old red tile roof.
Local climate
Searings Motorcycles 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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