42, High Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Windsor and Maidenhead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1950. Historic building.
42, High Street
- WRENN ID
- stranded-glass-weasel
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Constituency
- Windsor MP: Jack Rankin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1950
- Type
- Historic building
- Address
- 42, High Street, Eton, SL4 6BD
- OS grid reference
- SU 966 774
- Coordinates
- 51.48785, -0.60886
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 42 on High Street is an 18th-century building that was originally two houses. The left side is a two-storey red brick house, while the right side is a three-storey grey brick structure with red dressings and quoins. The facade features three double-hung sash windows within their surrounds. A notable shop front, dating from around 1797, includes two large windows with glazing bars and three doors: the two end doors have traceried fanlights, and the central door has a plain fanlight. The right-hand door has six panels, with four fielded panels and two flush panels. Decorative carved brackets with guttae and paterae support an entablature that features a modillion cornice. The first floor has a shallow splayed bay with a dentil and modillion cornice, and three windows set within architraves. The left side has a moulded wood cornice, while the right side has a brick modillion cornice. A brick band is present on the second floor, and the building has old tiled roofs. Numbers 38 to 43 on High Street form a group with this building.
Local climate
42, High Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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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