4, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. House and shop. 1 related planning application.

4, High Street

WRENN ID
gilded-nave-reed
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Welwyn Hatfield
Constituency
Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 December 1983
Type
House and shop
Address
4, High Street, AL6 9EG
OS grid reference
TL 230 162
Coordinates
51.831, -0.21501
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 4 High Street is a house and shop that dates back to the 17th century, featuring a timber frame composite range. The front of the building was plastered in the 19th century and is topped with a fish scale tile roof. It has two storeys with two first-floor sash windows set in moulded frames, while the ground floor has been modernized for shop use. There is a floor band and bracketed eaves. The south elevation facing the alley displays an external 17th-century red brick chimney stack, which has a plinth and sloped set offs. The rear blocks are unpainted and stuccoed.

Local climate

4, 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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