31, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.

31, High Street

WRENN ID
sacred-flint-river
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 October 1988
Type
House
Address
31, High Street, Pirton, SG5 3PS
OS grid reference
TL 146 318
Coordinates
51.97295, -0.33226
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a house dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, with a later 19th-century wing added to the south and a north extension built around 1970. The roughcast exterior contrasts with the yellow brick of the southern wing. The house, set back from the road, faces west and comprises a two-story, two-cell main body and a higher two-story parlor wing to the south. A single-story former bakehouse is attached to the south of the parlor wing, and a gabled porch connects it to the older part of the house. Each section has a three-light casement window on the first floor. A bow oriel window has been inserted into the ground floor of the parlor wing, which has a projecting gable chimney on its south side; the older wing features an internal chimney rebuilt in red brick. Inside, there are axial beams and squared joists. The building is said to have been a coaching inn, formerly known as The Live and Let Live, and later a pub until around 1774.

Local climate

31, High Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2015
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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  • 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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