20, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1974. Commercial building. 6 related planning applications.
20, High Street
- WRENN ID
- leaning-barrel-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1974
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 20, High Street, SG7 6AX
- OS grid reference
- TL 245 337
- Coordinates
- 51.98844, -0.18817
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 20 on High Street is an early 19th-century building with a stucco exterior and an old tiled roof that is hidden behind a parapet and cornice. It has two storeys, featuring a rusticated ground floor and a first floor with a band and three sash windows, including one triple light, all of which have glazing bars. There is a 19th-century shop bay window that has been altered, along with a segmentally arched shop window on the left side. This building is part of a group that includes several other council buildings on High Street, specifically Nos 6, 6A, 8, 10, 10A, 12, 14, 14A, 14B, 14C, 16, 20, 24, 24A, 26, and 32 to 42 (even), as well as the Gateway and Wall in front of Wynne's Almhouses, and Nos 46, 46A, and 48 to 52 (even).
Local climate
20, 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 — 6 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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