36 and 38, Castle Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 April 1973. Offices. 6 related planning applications.
36 and 38, Castle Street
- WRENN ID
- haunted-keystone-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 April 1973
- Type
- Offices
- Address
- 36 and 38, Castle Street, Hertford, SG14 1HH
- OS grid reference
- TL 324 123
- Coordinates
- 51.79437, -0.08032
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
36 and 38 Castle Street are semi-detached houses that have been converted into offices. They were built in the early 19th century and have undergone some alterations in the 20th century. The houses are constructed from yellow stock brick in Flemish bond, with the right-hand flank and rear elevation of No. 36 now colourwashed. They feature a hipped roof covered with Welsh slate, which has a catslide at the rear. There are two central square yellow brick chimneys with oversailing courses and four orange clay pots, along with two subsidiary stacks on either side, each with two pots.
The exterior consists of six bays over two storeys. On the first floor, there are four recessed 9-pane sash windows beneath rubbed brick flat arches, with stucco sills, two for each dwelling, positioned on either side of a central slightly projecting bay that has a blind window recess. A projecting pilaster at the centre indicates the party wall that divides the two houses. The ground floor features four 12-pane sash windows and doorways in projecting bays, with recessed three-panel doors in reveals, flanked by twin panelled pilasters and semicircular fanlights. The fanlight of No. 38 has radial and sectoral patterned tracery, all set below rubbed brick semicircular arches.
At the rear of No. 36, there is a large 20th-century conservatory, while No. 38 has a single-storey lean-to outshoot with a Welsh slated roof and a square brick chimney with oversailing courses that serves a former washhouse. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
36 and 38, Castle 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 6 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings