22a and 24, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1967. Shop, office. 2 related planning applications.
22a and 24, High Street
- WRENN ID
- carved-courtyard-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1967
- Type
- Shop, office
- Address
- 22a and 24, High Street, Buntingford, SG9 9AQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 362 294
- Coordinates
- 51.94725, -0.01913
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
22A and 24 High Street is a Grade II listed building that serves as a shop, now converted into offices. It dates back to the 16th century, with a 19th-century rear extension. The structure features a timber frame that is plastered, topped with a steep old tile roof. It is a three-bay, two-storey medieval commercial building with a lofty ground floor. The upper floor is designed as a large room, with the northern bay partitioned. There is a carriageway through the southern bay on the ground floor, which may not be original, and it appears there was no provision for a fireplace in the original building.
The street front includes three flush two-light casement windows that have been renewed and are horizontally proportioned. Below the jetty, there is a deep plaster cove that returns at each end. The central entrance leads to a recessed 20th-century shopfront, while a six-panel door at the left-hand end provides access to the first floor. Inside the carriageway on the right-hand side, and within the shop, there is exposed timber framing along with heavy flat joists and an axial beam, which has mortices for an axial partition in the middle bay. The first floor features chamfered deep cambered tie-beams with chamfered arched braces.
Local climate
22a and 24, 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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