42, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1984. School.

42, High Street

WRENN ID
former-frieze-dale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Berkshire
Constituency
Newbury MP: Mr Lee Dillon (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 June 1984
Type
School
Address
42, High Street, Hungerford
OS grid reference
SU 337 683
Coordinates
51.41316, -1.5168
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 42 High Street is a building that was originally a national school, founded in 1814, and is now used as showrooms and offices. It features a hipped slate roof and a dentil course at the eaves. The structure is made of brick, with grey headers and red stretchers, and consists of two storeys. The facade has four bays separated by brick piers, with tripartite 20th-century glazing bar sash windows set in wide openings that have cambered heads. There is a door on the left side of the ground floor, which is 20th-century and located in a semicircular headed opening with a radiating fanlight. A terracotta plaque on the ground floor indicates that this building served as a Voluntary Aid Detachment hospital during the Great War.

Local climate

42, High Street receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% 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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