49-53, King Street is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1964. Commercial. 3 related planning applications.
49-53, King Street
- WRENN ID
- long-ledge-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1964
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 49-53, King Street, Royston, SG8 9AZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 356 405
- Coordinates
- 52.04673, -0.02385
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building at 49-53 King Street is an 18th-century property, altered in the 19th century. It is constructed of plum-coloured brick with red brick dressings and has a hipped roof covered with old tiles, featuring a modillioned wooden cornice and two hipped dormers. The building is two storeys and has an attic, with a plinth and a band marking the first floor. The first floor has six windows: four 19th-century sash windows on the right, an 18th-century sash window on the left, and a casement window to the left of centre, positioned above a carriageway. The ground floor features an 18th-century segmentally arched sash window on the left, two 19th-century sash windows in the centre and on the right, each with stucco cornices supported by consoles. The building forms a group with numbers 41-67 (odd) and adjoining barns to the north end of numbers 41 and 43A.
Local climate
49-53, King 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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