57, High Road is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. A C17 House.
57, High Road
- WRENN ID
- tattered-steel-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- 57, High Road, Essendon
- OS grid reference
- TL 274 084
- Coordinates
- 51.76062, -0.15425
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 57 High Road is a house that features a mid-19th century front and a timber-framed range dating back to the 17th or 18th century. The building has a plaster exterior and a brick plinth. It is two storeys high and has an L-shaped plan. The front includes four casement windows with one glazing bar, arranged in two and three lights. There is a latticed wooden gabled porch leading to a flush panel door. The roof is covered with plain tiles, hipped at the northern end and featuring a parapet and chimney stack at the southern end. Additionally, there is a roughcast rear extension on the southern side.
Local climate
57, High Road 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
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