12 and 14, Hitchin Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1974. House. 1 related planning application.
12 and 14, Hitchin Street
- WRENN ID
- odd-footing-kestrel
- 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
- 12 and 14, Hitchin Street, SG7 6AE
- OS grid reference
- TL 243 338
- Coordinates
- 51.98894, -0.19075
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a pair of 19th-century buildings on Hitchin Street. They are constructed of yellow brick with a Welsh slate roof featuring a bracketed cornice. The buildings are three storeys high, with a band indicating the second floor level. They have five sash windows on each front elevation. The ground and first-floor windows have segmental lintels, while the second-floor windows have flat lintels. Two ground-floor canted bay windows are present. Each building has a six-panelled front door, with two panels glazed. Number 12 has a segmental fanlight with decorative glazing bars, while Number 14 has a rectangular fanlight. Number 14 also features a panelled reveal and a Doric porch. The buildings are listed for their contribution to the group value of numbers 2 to 16 (even) on Hitchin Street.
Local climate
12 and 14, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 21 transactions since 1997
- 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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