79, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Fareham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1976. Commercial building. 1 related planning application.

79, High Street

WRENN ID
stubborn-turret-primrose
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Fareham
Constituency
Fareham and Waterlooville MP: Suella Braverman (RUK)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 October 1976
Type
Commercial building
Address
79, High Street, PO16 7AX
OS grid reference
SU 582 061
Coordinates
50.85236, -1.17405
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 79 on High Street is an early 19th-century building with a stuccoed facade and a hipped slate double span roof, which is slightly higher on the eastern side. The building has two storeys and features three windows facing High Street, with unbarred sashes on the first floor and modern glazing in a shouldered architrave on the ground floor. There are two windows facing East Street, generally featuring late 19th-century glazing in sashes, with the eastern ground floor window having a moulded boxed frame. The corner shop front from the 19th century includes an entablature with a cornice, frieze, architrave, pilasters, and consoles, although the shop windows have modern glazing. This building is part of a group of listed buildings on High Street and Union Street, along with the listed street lamps, Nos 1 and 2, the Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul on Church Place, and the Red Lion Hotel and No 10 East Street. No. 45 on High Street is noted as being of local interest.

Local climate

79, High Street receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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