42, Church Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1974. Residential building. 1 related planning application.
42, Church Street
- WRENN ID
- salt-corridor-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1974
- Type
- Residential building
- Address
- 42, Church Street, SG7 5AF
- OS grid reference
- TL 243 340
- Coordinates
- 51.99076, -0.19027
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 42 on Church Street is a building from the 18th century that has been altered in the 19th century. It features a front made of colour washed brick and has an old tiled roof that is hipped on the left and gabled on the right. The roof includes two box dormers and a bracketed cornice. The building has two storeys and attics, with four sash windows, two of which are triple light, set in reveals with narrow plain wooden surrounds that have cornices and ornamental covers for blinds. There is a six-panelled door with a rectangular fanlight in a panelled reveal, surrounded by an architrave with a cornice on consoles. To the right, there is an elliptically arched carriageway. The timber framework is exposed on the south side elevation. This building is part of a group that includes Nos 42, 44, 44A, and 50.
Local climate
42, Church 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 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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