79, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Stevenage local planning authority area, England. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
79, High Street
- WRENN ID
- seventh-floor-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stevenage
- Constituency
- Stevenage MP: Kevin Bonavia (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- 79, High Street, SG1 3HR
- OS grid reference
- TL 234 250
- Coordinates
- 51.91059, -0.20723
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
79 High Street is a building dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century. It features a construction of red stretchers and grey headers, topped with an old tiled roof that has two hipped dormers. The building is two storeys high with attics and includes two flush sash windows with glazing bars. The ground floor has cambered arches above the windows, and there is a central door that is sheltered by a hood, supported by a wrought iron bracket intended for an inn sign. This building was formerly known as The Unicorn Public House. Number 79 is part of a group with Nos 81 to 87 (odd), which are of local interest.
Local climate
79, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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