73, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1968. House, shop. 1 related planning application.
73, High Street
- WRENN ID
- vast-kitchen-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1968
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- 73, High Street, Ashwell, SG7 5NP
- OS grid reference
- TL 266 396
- Coordinates
- 52.04046, -0.15474
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 73 High Street is a house and shop that was formerly a farmhouse, dating from the 15th to 16th century. It features a hall house design with cross wings, which were altered in the early to mid-19th century. The structure is timber-framed, with the central two bays and the ground floor of each wing covered in red brick. It has a plain tile hipped roof, and the upper floors of the wings are jettied and plastered. The building is two storeys high and has four windows: casements in the wings and two flush sash windows in the center. The central door has four fielded panels and two flush panels, with gauged brick lintels above. The wings are adorned with curved brackets supporting the jetties and cusped wooden bargeboards. A shop window is located on the right side. The right cross wing is three bays deep, with its rear section likely dating from the 17th to 18th century, and features a first-floor Yorkshire casement in its side wall.
Local climate
73, 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
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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