23, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1971. House, shop.
23, High Street
- WRENN ID
- fallen-truss-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1971
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- 23, High Street, Wheathampstead
- OS grid reference
- TL 177 140
- Coordinates
- 51.81279, -0.29349
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 23 High Street is a house and shop that likely dates back to the 16th century. It features a timber frame with a late 18th-century front made of painted red brick. The building has a steeply pitched plain tile roof with an internal 18th-century chimney stack at the north gable end. It is two storeys tall, with the first floor displaying outer triple-hung sash windows and a central single sash window. The door below is framed with an architrave and has a flat hood supported by cut brackets. There are also 19th and 20th-century box shop windows. Inside, the south side has a lower ceiling, which may indicate the presence of a former cross wing.
Local climate
23, 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 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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