69, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.
69, High Street
- WRENN ID
- kindled-minaret-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- 69, High Street, Watton-At-Stone, SG14 3SZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 300 194
- Coordinates
- 51.85814, -0.11297
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 69 High Street is a house that was originally three dwellings and later a shop. It dates from the mid to late 17th century and was extended in the 18th century. The building was refronted and further extended in the 19th century. It features some timber framing with pargetted rendering and cement roughcast. The front has been refronted, cased, and extended in stock brick, with part of it whitewashed. The roof is tiled but has been extended with slate.
The house has three bays, with an additional later bay to the right. On the ground floor, the entrance is located to the right of the center. To the left, there is a 20th-century tripartite sash window, and to the right, a 20th-century bow window. The first floor has three recessed sashes with 16 panes each. The slate refronting has a shallow pitch, while the tiled section behind has a steeper pitch. The later bay set back to the right features a ground floor 20th-century bow window and a first-floor flush frame three-light casement, along with pargetting and coved eaves. It has a separate steeply pitched roof.
The right end of the building has an exposed red brick internal stack, with cement render behind leading to a red brick lean-to outshut that has a catslide roof and a two-light dormer at the rear. The left end is entirely stock brick, showing exposed plates and purlins, with 20th-century casements. There is a parallel 19th-century block at the rear, which has a right gable end stack and a hip to the left with another stack. Inside, some of the framing is exposed.
Local climate
69, 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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