78, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1966. House.

78, High Street

WRENN ID
calm-nave-martin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 November 1966
Type
House
Address
78, High Street, Walkern
OS grid reference
TL 288 263
Coordinates
51.92048, -0.12718
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a house located at 78 High Street, dating from the 17th century or earlier, with a northeast wing added in the early 18th century. It features a timber frame on a stucco sill, roughcast walls, and steep old red tile roofs. The house is one and a half storeys tall and has a three-cell layout with a central chimney. The entrance is now located in the east gable end facing the road.

The northeast extension has a gable chimney that projects slightly. The large central chimney has an oven off the middle room, located a third of the way from the east end, and features tall conjoined square shafts above the roof. There is also a small modern external chimney on the south wall.

The east front has a gable on the left side with a two-light top-hung leaded casement window above a continuous dripboard at the eaves level. There is a lean-to timber open porch leading to a renewed oak plank door. To the right, there is a gabled dormer at the eaves with a similar two-light flush casement window below. On the south side, there is another gabled dormer over the middle room, with three small windows on the ground floor. A tiled lean-to is set back at the west end. The structure has a three-bay design with a side purlin roof, and the northeast extension has a similar roof. Overall, this house is a picturesque example of village architecture.

Local climate

78, 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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