55, Hitchin Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1974. House.

55, Hitchin Street

WRENN ID
rough-frieze-swift
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
OS grid reference
TL 242 337
Coordinates
51.98828, -0.19198
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 55 on Hitchin Street is an 18th-century building that has been altered. It is constructed of red brick and features a tiled roof. The building has two storeys, with one sash window at the front and four sash windows on the right side elevation. This property is included in the listing for its group value, as it is part of a collection of buildings that includes Nos 1, 1B, 3, 5, 7, 17, 19, 23, to 31 (odd), 31A, 33, 33A, 35, and 43 to 57 (odd).

Local climate

55, 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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