81, Akeman Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1986. House, offices. 4 related planning applications.
81, Akeman Street
- WRENN ID
- turning-arch-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1986
- Type
- House, offices
- Address
- 81, Akeman Street, Tring, HP23 6AF
- OS grid reference
- SP 923 112
- Coordinates
- 51.79207, -0.66247
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 81 Akeman Street is a house, now used as offices, that dates from the 18th century or earlier, with early 19th-century front and rear extensions. The building features a stucco front and plastered ends, topped by a steeply pitched roof that is now slated. It is two storeys high and has six windows along the front, which faces east onto the pavement. The southern half of the building has a shallower parallel rear range, while the northern half features a hipped two-storey rear section.
The front of the house includes moulded surrounds and bracketed sills for the windows, a black painted plinth, and a parapet at the eaves. The ground floor has margin-light recessed sash windows, while the first floor has windows with three over three panes. There is a small moulded flat hood supported by shaped stucco brackets above the entrance. The off-centre panelled door has a three-centred curved head to its panel. Inside, the building has a clasped-purlin roof structure and a chimney capped off at the northern end.
Local climate
81, Akeman Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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