28 and 28a, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Stevenage local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1980. Commercial. 1 related planning application.
28 and 28a, High Street
- WRENN ID
- winter-ledge-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stevenage
- Constituency
- Stevenage MP: Kevin Bonavia (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1980
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 28 and 28a, High Street, SG1 3HF
- OS grid reference
- TL 232 253
- Coordinates
- 51.91337, -0.20959
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 28 and 28A on High Street are a building with origins dating back to the 16th or 17th century, featuring a timber frame and a painted brick facade from around the mid-19th century. The structure has a low-pitched slate roof with gabled ends and bracketed eaves, and it stands two storeys tall. The first floor has two windows with glazing bars, while the ground floor includes a 19th or 20th-century shopfront and an early 19th-century doorcase, which is adorned with fluted pilasters and a flat hood supported by brackets. The door has panelled reveals and a panelled door. On the south side, facing a passage, the building is jettied and has pargetted plasterwork along with an ovolo moulded mullion window. Inside, there are two chamfered beams on the first floor, along with jowled posts, cambered tie-beams, and arched braces.
Local climate
28 and 28a, 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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