26, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1951. House with shop. 3 related planning applications.
26, High Street
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-chapel-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1951
- Type
- House with shop
- Address
- 26, High Street, Buntingford, SG9 9AQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 362 295
- Coordinates
- 51.94734, -0.01917
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 26 is a house with a shop, dating from the early 18th century, with a late 19th-century shopfront. It features red and blue brick construction, with some weatherboarding at the rear, and has a steep old red tile half-hipped gambrel roof. The building is two storeys tall with attics and is three windows wide, forming a large L-shaped structure that includes a carriageway at the northern end and a projecting northeast rear wing. There is also a single-storey range of outhouses made of weatherboarding, tile, brick, and slate.
The front of the building has a regular arrangement with three two-light casement box dormers set behind a brick parapet, which is above a corbelled eaves band. Below, there are three slightly recessed box sash windows with six-over-six panes, each topped with deep red brick rubbed segmental arches. The shopfront includes a fascia and a central door, while the left-hand side has a heavy frame around a square-headed carriageway. A large axial chimney is located on the south side of the carriageway, positioned at the rear of the roof ridge, along with a corner fireplace and a smaller chimney at the southeast. There is also a rear dormer in the upper part of the roof on the southeast side.
Local climate
26, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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