51-55, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1964. A C17 Commercial. 1 related planning application.
51-55, High Street
- WRENN ID
- hollow-chimney-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1964
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 51-55, High Street, Royston, SG8 9AW
- OS grid reference
- TL 356 404
- Coordinates
- 52.04626, -0.02296
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 51 to 55 on High Street are a pair of 17th-century buildings that share a unified front. They feature a timber frame behind modern shop windows and have a pebbledash finish on the first floor. The buildings have a tiled roof and stand two storeys tall, with cornices above the shops. The first floor includes four flush sash windows with glazing bars. The left side of the ground floor is finished in colour washed brick. These buildings are part of a group that includes Nos 29 to 67 and No 45A.
Local climate
51-55, High Street sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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 — 5 transactions since 2015
- 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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