56, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1984. House, shop. 1 related planning application.
56, High Street
- WRENN ID
- white-cupola-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1984
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- 56, High Street, Ashwell
- OS grid reference
- TL 267 396
- Coordinates
- 52.04081, -0.1539
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 56 High Street is a house and shop dating from the 16th century. It has a timber frame with plastered walls and a low slate roof. The building is two storeys high, with the upper floor jettied on flat joists and originally featuring a gable end. In the 19th century, the ground floor was slightly extended forward. The mid-19th century shop window and door are combined with architraves. The upper floor has a single margin-light sash window. A red brick ridge chimney stack, rebuilt in the late 17th century, is also present.
Local climate
56, High 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 — 1 transaction since 2011
- 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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