The Old Boot is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. Public house. 5 related planning applications.
The Old Boot
- WRENN ID
- stony-turret-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1971
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Old Boot, 4, Market Place, AL3 5DG
- OS grid reference
- TL 146 071
- Coordinates
- 51.75122, -0.34022
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Boot, located at No 4 Market Place, is a 16th-century building with an irregular plan that has undergone alterations. It features a plastered front facing the street, topped with two wide gables that cross a steeply-pitched, tiled roof. The building has two storeys and an attic, with two windows on the front. Each gable has one attic window, and there is one first-floor window beneath them, all of which are casements set in slightly projecting box frames. The ground floor has been renewed and projects under a slated pent roof, now featuring a modern public house front. The north side of the building displays three tall, restored outside chimney stacks and a mix of roofs that culminate in an 18th-century weatherboarded structure with a high-pitched, tiled roof. The Old Boot is part of a group with Nos 1, 2, 3, and 18 High Street.
Local climate
The Old Boot sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 5 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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