20, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. House. 6 related planning applications.
20, High Street
- WRENN ID
- stark-pedestal-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- 20, High Street, Pirton, SG5 3PT
- OS grid reference
- TL 147 317
- Coordinates
- 51.97254, -0.33111
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 20 is a house located on High Street in Pirton, dating from the 17th century or earlier. It has a timber frame and is roughcast, topped with a steeply pitched thatch roof. This small house has one and a half stories, with its north gable facing the road to the east. The layout consists of two cells, featuring an internal chimney that rises on the rear slope. The entrance is now at the south end of the front, leading into a lean-to extension at the north end, which has a tiled roof. The east front has three windows and two swept dormers at the eaves, with three-light flush casement windows. There is a plank door leading to the north lean-to, and two windows at the rear, which indicate the presence of a staircase behind the chimney. A projecting timber at the apex of the north gable suggests that the roof may possibly be of cruck type.
Local climate
20, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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