32, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1967. A C15 House, now a shop.

32, High Street

WRENN ID
low-groin-curlew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 February 1967
Type
House, now a shop
Address
32, High Street, Buntingford
OS grid reference
TL 362 295
Coordinates
51.94758, -0.0193
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 32 is a house that has been converted into a shop. It dates back to the 15th century, with features from the 18th century and a shopfront from the 19th century. The building has an exposed timber frame with plastered panels and a jettied front, topped by a very steep old red tile roof. It is two stories high and consists of a single-bay jettied street range, which includes an external chimney on the north gable and a rear range along the north boundary.

The jettied front showcases close-studding and paired curved tension-braces, with a single brace on the north gable. There is a moulded wooden cornice from the 18th century at the eaves, and it features two flush box sash windows with 6/6 panes and moulded architraves. The shop window is long and divided, with a boarded stallriser and a half-glazed door on the right, complete with a fanlight above. A moulded blind-box connects the door and window. The building also has mutilated noses on the heavy joist ends and cut-back braces at each end, as well as under the right-hand jamb of the left window.

Local climate

32, 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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