5, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1987. House. 3 related planning applications.
5, High Street
- WRENN ID
- ancient-rafter-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- 5, High Street, Barley
- OS grid reference
- TL 399 386
- Coordinates
- 52.02855, 0.03819
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 5 High Street is a house dating from the late 17th century, which has been extended and altered in the 19th century. It features a timber frame that has been extended in brick, and the exterior is rendered and colourwashed. The house has a steeply pitched thatched roof, with slate covering the addition. It consists of one cell and two storeys, with an original lean-to outshut at the rear. The entrance is located to the left and features a recessed plank door. To the right, there is a two-storey 19th-century canted oriel window with one large light and three smaller lights, supported on shaped brackets. The left side of the building has 20th-century two-light casements and exposed front plates. There is a catslide roof over the lean-to outshut at the rear, which includes an entrance and a casement window. The right end of the house has exposed plates, and there is an external stack now incorporated into the 19th-century lean-to addition, which is one storey high and features a two-light casement, with the stack on the return. The lean-to is weatherboarded towards the rear and has a hipped roof. The numbered houses on High Street are not in a consecutive order, and No. 5 is not situated between Nos. 3 and 7 as one might expect.
Local climate
5, High 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 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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