12, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Hertsmere local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 1974. House. 4 related planning applications.
12, High Street
- WRENN ID
- sharp-lime-fen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hertsmere
- Constituency
- Hertsmere MP: Sir Oliver Dowden (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 February 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- 12, High Street, Elstree and Borehamwood, WD6 3EP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 178 953
- Coordinates
- 51.64485, -0.29828
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 12 High Street is a house dating from the 16th century, with extensions from the 19th century and a refronting from the 20th century. It features a timber frame with a rendered brick casing and a tiled roof. The building originally comprised a longer hall house with two bays and is now two storeys high, presenting a four-window front with a central entrance. The windows are glazing bar sashes, and all openings have moulded surrounds with vermiculated keys. The stone-coped parapet adds to its character, while the roof is hipped to the left. The right stack has been rebuilt to resemble its 17th-century original, featuring two joined diagonal shafts on the front pitch and one behind, along with a left end stack. At the rear, the house has been extended with two separately roofed ranges positioned at right angles to the hall, which also have glazing bar sashes and hips to the rear. Inside, notable features include an arched braced collar truss and ovolo moulded ceiling beams.
Local climate
12, High Street sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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