50 and 52, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1974. House. 3 related planning applications.
50 and 52, High Street
- WRENN ID
- high-span-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- 50 and 52, High Street, SG7 6BJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 245 336
- Coordinates
- 51.98747, -0.18695
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, consisting of numbers 50 and 52 High Street, has an early 19th-century facade of colour-washed pebble dash, topped by a tiled roof. It is a two-story building featuring a tall, prominent red brick chimney stack with decorative banding at the base and top. There are six windows, a combination of sash windows and casements, all with glazing bars. The windows include both original sash details alongside more modern shop windows. The building forms part of a group with numbers 46A, 48 to 52 on the even side of the street.
Local climate
50 and 52, High 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- 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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