23 and 23a, High Street is a Grade II* listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 November 1949. A C18 House.
23 and 23a, High Street
- WRENN ID
- narrow-sentry-hyssop
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 November 1949
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- TL 245 337
- Coordinates
- 51.98831, -0.18705
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
23 and 23A High Street is an 18th-century house made of chequered red and grey brick, with red brick dressings. It features a hipped tiled roof that is set behind a parapet and has a moulded brick cornice. The building stands three storeys high and has five sash windows with glazing bars, which are set in shallow reveals beneath flat arches. The central window on the first floor is a Venetian style, complete with a triple keystone, while the second floor has a semi-circular five-light window. The entrance consists of a central six-fielded panelled door with a fanlight in the reveal, framed by engaged Roman Ionic columns that support a modillioned open pediment. There are lower two-storey wings, with five windows on the left side and two on the right, both featuring parapets. This building is part of a group that includes Nos 1 to 11 (odd), 15, 19, 21, the outbuilding east of No 21, 25, 29, 33, 35A, 37, 37B, 41A, 41B, 41, 43, 45, and 53 to 63 (odd).
Local climate
23 and 23a, 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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