The Windmill Antiquary is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1949. House.
The Windmill Antiquary
- WRENN ID
- silent-stair-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1949
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Windmill Antiquary, 4-4a, High Street, Bishop's Stortford
- OS grid reference
- TL 486 214
- Coordinates
- 51.87138, 0.1583
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Windmill Antiquary, formerly known as The Bookshop, is a red brick house dating from around 1730, located on the north side of High Street. It features a parapetted design and an old red tile roof. The building stands three storeys tall and has three segmental-headed windows on the first and second floors, which are fitted with 19th-century sash frames. The edges of the elevation are adorned with cut brick Doric pilasters, which are interrupted by a modern ground floor shop front. Additionally, there is an architrave and frieze blocks, along with a continuous plastered brick dentilled cornice. The building is topped with a crowning parapet that has a moulded capping.
Local climate
The Windmill Antiquary sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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