17 and 19, Hitchin Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1974. House. 5 related planning applications.
17 and 19, Hitchin Street
- WRENN ID
- sombre-quartz-snow
- 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
- 17 and 19, Hitchin Street, SG7 6AL
- OS grid reference
- TL 244 338
- Coordinates
- 51.98913, -0.18962
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a building dating from the 16th or 17th century, located on Hitchin Street. It appears to have been accompanied by two rear wings situated on either side of a yard, accessible via a carriageway in front. It may have previously operated as an inn. The front facade is plastered and is topped by a steeply pitched tiled roof, with a hip at the west end. The building is two storeys high. A central carriageway cuts into the upper storey, resting on a moulded beam. The first floor has three windows: one casement window and two sash windows. The ground floor features two canted bay windows on the right, and a shop bay window on the left, which is set beneath the oversailing first floor. There are two half-glazed doors, each sheltered by a hood supported on consoles. The building forms a group with numbers 1, 1B, 3, 5, 7, 23 to 31 (odd), 31A, 33, 33A, 35 and 43 to 57 (odd).
Local climate
17 and 19, 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 — 1 transaction since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- 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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