4, North Street is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1949. Former buildings group.
4, North Street
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-granite-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1949
- Type
- Former buildings group
- Address
- 4, North Street, Bishop's Stortford, CM23 2LQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 487 214
- Coordinates
- 51.87144, 0.15899
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 4 North Street is a building dating from around 1830, originally part of four separate structures. It is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and features a low slate roof behind a parapet. The building has three storeys and three windows. The first floor has tripartite sash windows with rubbed brick lintels, while the second floor contains single sashes set within blank segmental arcading. There are rich oval pattern iron panels above the windows in the parapet. The ground floor has a late 19th-century and modern shop front.
To the south, formerly No 2, is an early 19th-century building made of yellow stock brick with stone dressings, also three storeys high. It features an arcaded ground floor, two first floor sashes with roll-moulded architraves, and two plain surround sashes on the second floor. This building has an inset rounded corner facing Bridge Street, with a painted plaster first floor.
To the east, formerly No 1 Bridge Street, is another early 19th-century structure made of yellow stock brick and four storeys tall, with single sashes on the first and second floors. Further east, formerly No 3 Bridge Street, is a 19th-century building that is plastered over an earlier timber frame and has a slate mansard roof with a jettied first floor. This building also features a modern shop front. The entire group of buildings has modern shop interiors.
Local climate
4, North Street 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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