70 and 72, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Stevenage local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1948. House. 6 related planning applications.
70 and 72, High Street
- WRENN ID
- waning-joist-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stevenage
- Constituency
- Stevenage MP: Kevin Bonavia (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 February 1948
- Type
- House
- Address
- 70 and 72, High Street, SG1 3EA
- OS grid reference
- TL 233 251
- Coordinates
- 51.91149, -0.2086
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 17th or early 18th century red brick house, originally a single dwelling, now divided into two. It has a tiled roof with gabled dormers and a modillioned wooden cornice. The building is two storeys high with attics. A full-height canted bay features a round arched doorway with a fanlight set within a panelled reveal. A similar doorway, also with a six-panel door, is located on the right-hand side. To the left are three windows that are nearly flush with the wall, while the right-hand side has a shop window. Numbers 60 to 72 (even), and number 72A form a group.
Local climate
70 and 72, 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.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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