130, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1986. A C16 House, shop. 1 related planning application.
130, High Street
- WRENN ID
- far-storey-khaki
- 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, shop
- Address
- 130, High Street, Watton-At-Stone, SG14 3RZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 303 191
- Coordinates
- 51.85592, -0.10908
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house, now used as a shop and dwelling, dating from the mid to late 16th century. It was floored and heated in the 17th century and remodelled, re-roofed, and extended in the early 19th century. The building is timber-framed with red brick additions, and the external walls are rendered and scored to resemble ashlar. It has a slate roof. Originally, it was likely a double-ended hall house, now forming a half 'H' shape.
The recessed 'hall' range has an entrance leading to a lobby and a rebuilt multiform ridge stack. A ground floor canted bay window and a first-floor tripartite sash window are located to the right. The eaves have moulded soffits with diamond patterning. Projecting cross wings are jettied with shallow hipped roofs. The left, or lower, end has a shallow canted bay window on the ground floor and a small oriel window above. The upper wing on the right has a 20th-century shop front on the ground floor and a three-light casement window above.
The rear of the right side has pargetted panels with an entrance to the shop. The left return has an 19th-century brick stack and a tile-coped projection towards the front, along with two-light flush frame casements. A short 19th-century addition extends to the rear right, with cambered heads over the windows. A 19th-century wing extends to the rear left, featuring a half dormer on its outer elevation.
Inside, there is some exposed timber framing of large scantling. A cambered tie beam with struts supports the steeply pitched rafters of the original hall roof.
Local climate
130, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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