52, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1951. House. 4 related planning applications.

52, High Street

WRENN ID
solitary-vault-cedar
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
Address
52, High Street, Buntingford, SG9 9AH
OS grid reference
TL 361 296
Coordinates
51.94839, -0.01991
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 52 High Street is a house dating from around 1700, with alterations made in the early 19th century and the northern part of the front replaced in the early 20th century, which was previously a butcher's shop. The building features a composite construction of a timber frame with roughcast, while the southern part of the street front is made of red and blue chequered brick. The northern part is constructed of red brick. It has a steep old red tile roof and consists of two storeys and cellars, arranged in a three-cell layout with a central chimney. The chimney was altered in the early 19th century to create a through passage.

The front of the house is divided into two parts. The longer and earlier southern part has blue headers and presents a symmetrical composition with three windows and a central door. It features a plinth, a floor band, and red gauged brick flat arches. The upper windows are flush box sashed with 6/6 panes and moulded architraves. The lower windows, which flank the door, were widened in the early 19th century to accommodate recessed triple sash windows with plastered reveals, reeded mullions, and small panes. The central entrance has a six-panel door with glazed top panels, moulded middle panels, and flush beaded bottom panels, accessed by two steps. It is framed by a moulded eared surround with a frieze and a dentilled triangular pediment.

The shorter northern part of the front has a matching floor band and plinth, featuring a recessed sash window on each floor with 2/2 panes and a flat arch. It includes a half-glazed door with a fanlight and a four-panel flush-beaded passage door at the northern end. A sun firemark, numbered 154532, is located on the older part of the front and dates from a policy of 1756.

Local climate

52, 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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