18, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 1972. Commercial.
18, High Street
- WRENN ID
- lone-beam-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 November 1972
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 18, High Street, Ware
- OS grid reference
- TL 359 142
- Coordinates
- 51.81036, -0.02936
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 18 High Street is a house that has been converted into a ground floor shop with offices above. It dates from the 18th century, with a 19th-century front, and was reconstructed internally in 1972. The building features a red brick front with yellow brick quoins and a moulded red brick dentil cornice. It has a Welsh slated roof with red ridge tiles behind a parapet.
On the first floor, there are four plain glazed sash windows set in reveals under red rubbed arches, while the second floor has four sash windows with glazing bars. The ground floor shopfront is framed by brick pilasters on either side, topped with coarsely detailed Tuscan capitals and bold overhanging paired consoles, along with a frieze and pediments. The 19th-century shopfront includes a stucco stallriser, plate glass windows in moulded timber frames, and twin cast-iron columns with simplified Corinthian capitals flanking a canted recessed entrance that has a glazed door. Above the entrance, there is a fascia with modern timber boarding and a recessed void for a former blind box. At the rear, there is a modern single-storey extension with a pantiled roof.
Local climate
18, 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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