17, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.
17, High Street
- WRENN ID
- half-sentry-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- 17, High Street, Pirton
- OS grid reference
- TL 145 319
- Coordinates
- 51.97431, -0.33337
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 17 is a house located on High Street in Pirton, dating from around 1600, with a higher rear wing added in the 19th century. The house features a timber frame on a stuccoed brick sill, with the frame exposed at the front and painted brick infill. The rear wing is roughcast. It has a steeply pitched thatched roof with a decorative ridge on the front range. The building is 1 ½ storeys tall and has a three-cell, internal-chimney, lobby-entry plan. It is set back from the road and faces west, with the rear wing positioned at the northern end and slightly higher. The house has three windows, a central swept dormer at the eaves, and a boarded door aligned with the chimney, located a third of the way from the northern end. The windows are two-light flush lattice-leaded casements.
Local climate
17, High Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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 — 1 transaction since 2006
- 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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