The Old Brewers Yard is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Brewers Yard
- WRENN ID
- tattered-frieze-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Brewers Yard, 8, Albert Street, Markyate, AL3 8HY
- OS grid reference
- TL 060 164
- Coordinates
- 51.83642, -0.46273
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Brewers Yard is a brewery house from the former Golden Lion Brewery, dating from around 1820. It is constructed of plum brick with lighter red arches and a stucco plinth and dressings. The building features a hipped slate roof with a plastered soffit overhanging the eaves.
This symmetrical, double-pile, double-fronted house faces south and has two storeys with three windows wide and a central entrance. It has a high stucco plinth, a plat-band, and paired brackets at the eaves soffit, along with V-jointed rusticated toothed quoins. The tall recessed sash windows have 8/8 panes and plastered reveals. The plat-band of stucco is only present at the front, aligning with the blocking course of the entablature of the stucco Doric doorcase, which features three-quarter columns. The entrance has a six-panel door with flush-beaded bottom panels and moulded panels above, topped by a rectangular fanlight and accessed by two stone steps.
The garden front on the west side is two windows wide and includes French windows. There is also a lower brick outhouse with stucco quoins set back at the northeast corner.
Local climate
The Old Brewers Yard sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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