40 and 42, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Stevenage local planning authority area, England. Shop, house. 1 related planning application.
40 and 42, High Street
- WRENN ID
- heavy-bonework-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stevenage
- Constituency
- Stevenage MP: Kevin Bonavia (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Shop, house
- Address
- 40 and 42, High Street, SG1 3EF
- OS grid reference
- TL 232 253
- Coordinates
- 51.9129, -0.20934
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 40 and 42 on High Street are a late 18th-century building with a red brick front that conceals an earlier structure. The building features a steeply pitched hipped roof, which is partly hidden by a stone-coped parapet. It has two storeys and five widely spaced sash windows, each with vertical glazing bars, set beneath flat arches made of cut brick. The ground floor has projecting shop fronts that date from the 19th century.
Local climate
40 and 42, 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 — 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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