28 and 30, Railway Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 April 1973. House, shop.

28 and 30, Railway Street

WRENN ID
knotted-ember-bone
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 April 1973
Type
House, shop
Address
28 and 30, Railway Street, Hertford, SG14 1BA
OS grid reference
TL 327 126
Coordinates
51.79711, -0.07627
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

28 and 30 Railway Street are houses that now feature a large shop on the ground floor of No. 30. They date from the 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th and 19th centuries. The buildings are timber-framed, with a stuccoed front and a pebbledashed rear, and there is a brown brick lean-to extension behind No. 28. The right-hand wall, made of brown brick, and the parapet are remnants of properties that were demolished in the 1960s. The roofs are covered with old tiles.

The exterior is two storeys high with attics. The first floor has four flush-set 12-pane sash windows, each with architrave surrounds. On the ground floor, there is a carriageway on the left, a large 20th-century shopfront with plate glass windows in the centre, and a single flush-set 12-pane sash window on the right, accompanied by a panelled door beneath a weatherboard hood supported by cut console brackets. The rear features a flush-set 12-pane sash window above the carriageway, along with scattered fenestration that has been largely renewed.

The roofs include four box dormers, three with casement windows and one with a 20th-century pivot window. There is a projecting gable over the main rear outshoot, a Welsh slated roof on the lean-to behind No. 28, and a yellow brick chimneystack positioned forward of the ridge on the left. Additionally, there is a tall red-brown brick chimneystack with a band and four tall orange clay pots that rises from the rear slope of No. 28, along with a tall brown brick stack located further back. The ground floors have been opened out, but the interiors of the upper floors have not been inspected.

Local climate

28 and 30, Railway 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.

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