24a, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1974. House. 1 related planning application.
24a, High Street
- WRENN ID
- seventh-slate-thrush
- 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
- 24a, High Street, SG7 6AX
- OS grid reference
- TL 245 337
- Coordinates
- 51.98819, -0.18784
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
24A High Street is a building dating from the 16th or 17th century, which was refaced in the 19th century in a Tudor style. The front is made of stucco, with some exposed timber corbels and brackets on the right side above a recessed carriageway. It has an old tiled roof featuring a 19th-century gabled oriel dormer on the right, and a cement-rendered gable on the left side elevation. The building has two storeys and five segmental-headed sash windows with drip moulds. There is a round arch with a drip mould over the door. Notably, the large carved wooden gates of the carriageway, which are from the 15th century, are said to have been brought from Quickswood nearby, although the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments suggests they may have originated from the Hospital of Saint Mary Magdalen at Clothall. This building is part of a group that includes several other council buildings along High Street.
Local climate
24a, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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