46, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1984. House. 1 related planning application.
46, High Street
- WRENN ID
- tangled-lead-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- 46, High Street, Kimpton
- OS grid reference
- TL 176 183
- Coordinates
- 51.85142, -0.29337
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house with a 16th-century core and a cross wing featuring 17th-century details. The ground floor is painted brick, while the upper floor has chequered parqueting. The eastern side of the house was rebuilt in the late 19th century. The cross wing has a jettied upper floor, supported by shaped brackets. The roof is covered in machine tiles and has terracotta cresting. Windows include 20th-century casements and one 19th-century sash window. Inside, a 16th-century partition wall with tension braces remains.
Local climate
46, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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