20, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Three Rivers local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1985. House. 1 related planning application.

20, High Street

WRENN ID
lost-truss-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Three Rivers
Constituency
South West Hertfordshire MP: Mr Gagan Mohindra (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 October 1985
Type
House
Address
20, High Street, Batchworth, WD3 1ER
OS grid reference
TQ 062 945
Coordinates
51.63953, -0.46623
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 20 High Street is a house dating from the 17th century, with extensions from the early 18th century and early 20th century. It features a timber frame with red brick nogging and a tiled roof. The house consists of two separately built bays, along with a rear wing and a 20th-century addition. It is two storeys high. The timber-framed bays have one and three light 20th-century casements, with horizontal sliding sashes on the left side. The structure displays exposed posts, rails, studs, and a curved brace. There is a cement rendered stack on the gable end of the earlier bay, and a lower gable on the later left bay with a truncated end stack. The right end stack is located where the roof joins No. 18, which is not listed. On the left return, there is a 20th-century entrance with horizontal timber strips in the brickwork. The roof features queen struts to the clasped purlin design. The early rear wing is located to the right and has a weatherboarded gable end with a truncated original stack. The 20th-century wing is situated to the rear left and has a gable front. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

20, High Street sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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