42 High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 1994. Demolished building.

42 High Street

WRENN ID
cold-moat-cream
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wrexham
Constituency
Wrexham MP: Andrew Ranger (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 January 1994
Type
Demolished building
Address
42 High Street, Offa
OS grid reference
SJ 335 501
Coordinates
53.04491, -2.99289
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

42 High Street is a late 19th-century commercial building constructed of painted brick with painted stone dressings and a slate roof. It stands three storeys tall and features a five-window range. The ground floor was entirely renewed around 1970, but the upper storeys remain virtually unaltered. Notable architectural features include tall wood mullioned and transomed windows set in moulded architraves, with a deep panelled sill band on the first floor and segmental pediments supported by brackets over each window. The upper storey has a bracketted sill band and entablature hoods above each window, along with angle quoins. A deep eaves band with modillion brackets supports a projecting cornice.

Despite alterations to the original internal layout and ground floor elevation, this building is an interesting example of late 19th-century commercial development and is part of an important group of buildings on High Street.

Local climate

42 High Street receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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