8, Hitchin Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1974. House. 2 related planning applications.
8, Hitchin Street
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-eave-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- 8, Hitchin Street, SG7 6AE
- OS grid reference
- TL 243 338
- Coordinates
- 51.98904, -0.19049
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 8 Hitchin Street is a 19th-century building with a front made of yellow brick and a tiled roof. It has two storeys, featuring five first-floor casement windows and two ground-floor canted bay windows. The entrance includes a three-panelled door with a rectangular fanlight, all set within a rusticated surround beneath a Doric porch that has fluted pilasters and octagonal pillars. The front of the building may hide an earlier structure. Nos. 2 to 16 (even) are part of a group.
Local climate
8, Hitchin 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
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
- 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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