66, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. House, shop.

66, High Street

WRENN ID
white-niche-jackdaw
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 February 1988
Type
House, shop
Address
66, High Street, St. Paul's Walden
OS grid reference
TL 183 211
Coordinates
51.87648, -0.28212
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 66 High Street is a house that now functions as both a residence and a shop. It dates from around 1700, with a mid-18th century parallel rear extension and a 19th century wide lean-to extension at the rear. There is also a 20th century low polygonal shop extension at the front. The building features a red brick facade with black headers, while the 18th century extension is made of sandy red brick with some blue bricks. The roofs are covered with old red tiles, although the front slope and the lean-to rear extension are finished in slates.

This two-storey house faces east at the corner with The Valley. It has a stucco plinth, a plat-band, and a moulded wooden eaves cornice at the front. The front elevation includes two windows on the first floor, a central door, a canted bay window to the left, and the shop extension on the right. Inside, there is a chimney on the north gable and another on the south part of the rear wall. The windows are three-light casements, while the bay window features sash windows. The entrance consists of a half-glazed door with six panels. The rear wing has three windows on the first floor and an internal gable chimney on the south side. The building is included for its group value.

Local climate

66, High Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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