76, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1968. House.
76, High Street
- WRENN ID
- final-footing-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- 76, High Street, Barkway
- OS grid reference
- TL 384 355
- Coordinates
- 52.00156, 0.01507
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 76 is a house located on High Street in Barkway, dating from the mid to late 17th century. It has been cased, altered, and extended in the early to mid 19th century. The building is likely timber-framed and is cased in white brick with some areas stuccoed. It features a steeply pitched slate roof and consists of three bays, with two narrower bays added to the right. The house is two storeys high, originally having a central entrance that includes a six-panelled door set in panelled reveals, framed by a doorcase with a panelled architrave and a moulded flat hood.
On the ground floor, there are flanking and first-floor flush frame glazing bar sash windows, with panelled architraves and roundels at the upper angles. The eaves are close, and there is a cross axial ridge stack to the right of the entrance. To the right, two small 19th-century bays feature a former shop window on the ground floor with 24 panes, a panelled architrave, and a coved hood. The first floor has a recessed glazing bar sash window with a cambered head and a blind opening.
The left gable end is cased in white brick and has a ground floor 16-pane recessed sash window. A low two-storey wing from the 19th century extends to the rear left, featuring recessed casements and a rear end stack, with a tiled roof. The rear of the main block is also white brick, with chamfered jambs to the openings. Inside, the building has stop-chamfered axial and cross axial bearers.
Local climate
76, 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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