32, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1974. Shop, office.

32, High Street

WRENN ID
old-chancel-plum
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Country
England
Date first listed
14 March 1974
Type
Shop, office
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 32 High Street is a shop that was formerly used as living accommodation above, now serving as offices. It dates from the 17th century and was refaced in the 18th century, likely when the original gabled roof was reconstructed. The building has undergone alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed with a stucco exterior and features a hipped old tiled roof that includes a box dormer with a 20th-century window, replacing an earlier hip-roofed dormer. The building has two storeys and attics, with a cornice and a 20th-century box gutter.

On the front, there are two sash windows with divided glazing on the left and a narrow undivided sash window on the right, all nearly flush set with architrave surrounds. A moulded plaster window head on the centre left indicates where a former large first-floor window was replaced by sashes in the early 19th century. The ground floor has a modern shopfront from the early 1970s, featuring an offset door, large and small display windows with projecting timber surrounds that have curved corners, and a projecting modern arch above the recessed entrance door. There is a boxed-out fascia above the shopfront.

The north elevation faces East Street and is two storeys tall, with a stucco finish that is partly over brickwork. This may be beneath an underbuilt jetty on the left, which has been modernly rebuilt, exposing boxes and architrave surrounds to the left, beneath a hipped roofed old tiled projection, and a 20th-century metal casement window on the right.

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