60 and 64, Fore Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 April 1973. House, shop. 1 related planning application.
60 and 64, Fore Street
- WRENN ID
- waning-sentry-frost
- 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
- 60 and 64, Fore Street, Hertford, SG14 1BY
- OS grid reference
- TL 327 125
- Coordinates
- 51.796, -0.07665
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house, later used as a ground-floor shop with flats above to the rear, dating back to the 18th century and refaced in the early 19th century. It is timber-framed with a stuccoed front and plastered rear, and features long black-weatherboarded rear outshut. The roof is tiled, but concealed by a parapet at the front, with a square red brick chimneystack on the right (west) side and a plastered stack at the rear.
The front elevation is three storeys high with two bays. The first and second floors each have two slightly recessed 12-pane sash windows with architrave surrounds. Decorative details include flush panels bordered by incised channels with Greek key ornament above the first-floor windows, a plat band at second-floor level, recessed panels above the second-floor windows, and a band with a moulded cornice and blocking course/parapet above. The ground floor has an early 19th-century shopfront with a bow window (now plain glazed) above a later red granite stallriser, and a recessed, three-quarter margin glazed door on the left, set below a fanlight with painted ornamental glass. There is a panelled pilaster outer surround and fascia below the cornice, with a 20th-century fascia board above.
The rear of the building is plastered with a hipped roof and casement windows, above a long, black-weatherboarded rear outshut with casement windows on the first floor. This outshut was formerly used as stabling with a loft above and was accessed through a former carriageway (now blocked) between numbers 44 and 46 to the west. It contains parts of numbers 60 and 64, with the latter now including storage and garaging at ground-floor level, and two flats on each of the first and second floors of the front block.
The shop interior retains 19th-century fittings. The building has been used by Sheffield Chemists since 1804, though the shopfront and facade appear to date from approximately 1820-1830.
Local climate
60 and 64, Fore 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 13 transactions since 1995
- 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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