26, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1974. Commercial building.
26, High Street
- WRENN ID
- graven-mortar-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1974
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 26, High Street, SG5 1BH
- OS grid reference
- TL 184 291
- Coordinates
- 51.94801, -0.27853
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
26 High Street is an early 19th-century building constructed of whitewashed brick. It stands three storeys tall and features a modillioned cornice and a parapet. There is a band at the second floor level. The ground floor has a modern shop front, while the upper floors each have three sash windows with glazing bars set under flat arches. This building is part of a group that includes Nos 16 to 26, which are consecutive.
Local climate
26, High Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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