26a and 28, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1976. Commercial building. 4 related planning applications.
26a and 28, High Street
- WRENN ID
- fading-chamber-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1976
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 26a and 28, High Street, Royston, SG8 9AG
- OS grid reference
- TL 356 406
- Coordinates
- 52.04741, -0.02357
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This early 19th-century building comprises two properties, 26A and 28, on the east side of High Street. It is faced with cement rendering and has a Welsh slate roof, distinguished by octagonal shafts to its gault brick chimney stack. The building is three storeys high with shop windows at ground level and sash windows on the upper floors. It is listed for its contribution to the group value of buildings along High Street, which also includes numbers 2 to 32 (even), number 26A, and numbers 1 and 2 John Street.
Local climate
26a and 28, High Street sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 2004
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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