81a 81b, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1974. Office conversion. 2 related planning applications.
81a 81b, High Street
- WRENN ID
- lone-keep-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1974
- Type
- Office conversion
- Address
- 81a 81b, High Street, Ware, SG12 9AD
- OS grid reference
- TL 356 143
- Coordinates
- 51.81114, -0.03317
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 81A and 81B are part of the rear outshoot of No. 81, dating from the 16th century, but they were significantly altered in the 1980s when converted into office suites. The building is timber-framed, with colourwashed brick on the ground floor and red brick on the gable end, while the upper part is plastered. It has old tiled roofs and is two storeys high. The ground floor features two modern half-glazed doors beneath gabled heads supported by timber brackets, along with two modern casement windows. The upper floor has irregular fenestration, including a modern glazed 16th-century caveletto mullioned three-light window at the top left and a long three-light timber window at the upper right. The building has a four-bay plan, with braced tie-beams and exposed studs visible inside, as well as a braced side purlin roof. This range was originally part of The Checker Inn, associated with the frontage of No. 81.
Local climate
81a 81b, High Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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