20 and 22, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1983. House.
20 and 22, High Street
- WRENN ID
- lone-cellar-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 November 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- 20 and 22, High Street, Standon
- OS grid reference
- TL 386 234
- Coordinates
- 51.89208, 0.0128
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
20 and 22 High Street is a pair of houses that were originally a single house from the 16th century, later refronted in the early 18th century. The structure has a timber frame that is plastered, although some of the framing is exposed in the passage to the south. It features a painted brick sill and steep old red tile roofs. The building is two storeys tall with a crosswing at the south that extends to the rear, although the front jetty has been cut back to the wall line.
No 20, located on the right, has two upper floor windows and a canted bay window on the ground floor, with the entrance door on the left accessed by two steps. No 22, on the left, has one window on each floor and a higher ground floor level, with four steps leading up to the door, which is positioned adjacent to the right side of the lower window. Both houses feature flush box sash windows with moulded surrounds and 6/6 panes, with the ground floor window of No 20 being larger. The bay window has small paned casements that have been repaired.
The entrance to No 20 includes a more elaborate six-panel fielded door set in a moulded doorcase with a flat hood supported by shaped brackets. No 22 has a six-panel flush door in a moulded doorcase that shares a small hood with the adjoining window. The south side of the building displays exposed timber framing with close studding, tension bracing, and a cut-off jetty support. There is a large chimney at the rear and a weatherboarded gable on the rear wing. Additionally, there is a 19th-century rear lean-to extension that is slated and two storeys high.
Local climate
20 and 22, 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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