Christy's Corner is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. A C17 House, shop. 2 related planning applications.
Christy's Corner
- WRENN ID
- western-vestry-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1984
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Christy's Corner, 68, High Street, Ashwell, SG7 5NS
- OS grid reference
- TL 266 396
- Coordinates
- 52.04072, -0.15483
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Christy's Corner is a house and shop that dates from the 17th century or earlier. It features a timber frame with a plastered front. The right side of the building has early 20th-century red brick on the ground floor and roughcast on the jettied upper floor. The roof is steeply pitched and covered with plain tiles; the right bay was formerly a gabled cross wing. The building has two storeys. On the upper floor, there are two sash windows without glazing bars. The ground floor has a double shop front from the 19th to 20th century, with each window containing 12 panes. This building was formerly a butcher's shop.
Local climate
Christy's Corner 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
- 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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