41-45, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1975. House. 5 related planning applications.
41-45, High Street
- WRENN ID
- night-vestry-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- 41-45, High Street, Pirton, SG5 3PT
- OS grid reference
- TL 147 317
- Coordinates
- 51.97282, -0.33102
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a group of three houses, originally two adjoining dwellings, located on Pirtton High Street. The main part of the building dates back to the 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th and later centuries. Number 45 is a later 17th-century addition, also altered in the 18th and 19th centuries. The houses are timber framed and have roughcast plastering with painted brick on the ground floor of numbers 41 and 43. They are covered by steep roofs made of old red tiles.
The main range is a two-storey building with three bays, set back from the road, facing south. It has three windows on the first floor and four on the ground floor, with a door between each pair. The ground floor windows are small-paned casements, and the doors are boarded. There is a dripboard above each ground floor opening. A large internal east gable chimney is built of 18th-century brick. A gabled wing extends to the northwest. Number 45 is a two-and-a-half-storey house, set back on the east end. It has one window on each floor and a gabled dormer window at the eaves. The ground floor has a door to the left of the ground floor window, a 2-light flush casement window, and small-paned windows throughout. The eaves are lower at the rear, over an outshut. Number 45 also has an internal east gable chimney, a boarded door, and a roof with clasped purlins. Small sash windows are found in the east gable.
Local climate
41-45, High Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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 — 3 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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