81, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1974. House, shop. 4 related planning applications.
81, High Street
- WRENN ID
- riven-pavement-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1974
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- 81, High Street, Ware, SG12 9AD
- OS grid reference
- TL 356 143
- Coordinates
- 51.81126, -0.03313
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 81 High Street is a house that has been converted into shops with a flat above. It was built in 1833, as noted on the rainwater head, for the Ware Gas Light and Coke Company. The ground floor was rebuilt in 1954. The building is constructed of yellow stock brick and has a Welsh slated roof, featuring two brick chimneys with square terracotta pots. It is two storeys high and has three first-floor sash windows with glazing bars set in reveals beneath flat arches. The ground floor showcases a Neo-Georgian shopfront with entablatures and a central pediment above Doric pilasters that frame a recessed entrance. This entrance has twin leaded glazed doors topped by a semicircular fanlight with radiating glazing bars and a moulded archivolt. The site was previously home to The Checker Inn, which was first recorded in 1509. The 19th-century rebuilding includes some reused timber, as seen in a moulded beam that serves as a purlin in the roof of the rear outshoot.
Local climate
81, High Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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