45a, 47 and 49, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1964. Commercial. 2 related planning applications.
45a, 47 and 49, High Street
- WRENN ID
- noble-screen-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1964
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 45a, 47 and 49, High Street, Royston, SG8 9AW
- OS grid reference
- TL 356 405
- Coordinates
- 52.04644, -0.0234
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an 18th-century building fronting onto the High Street. The front is constructed of red brick, topped with a tiled roof, a brick cornice moulding, and a parapet on numbers 45A and 47. The building is two storeys high. The ground floor has four plain shop windows, with a modern recessed porch in the centre. Two doorways on the right hand side have decorative surrounds and cornices, with consoles supporting the cornice on the left. The first floor has five sash windows with glazing bars; a flat arch is visible on the left, while the remaining windows have cambered arches. There are two dummy windows incorporated into the facade. Numbers 45A, 47 and 49, along with numbers 29 to 67 (odd) form a group.
Local climate
45a, 47 and 49, 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 — 5 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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