79, Sopwell Lane is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. A C18 House. 2 related planning applications.
79, Sopwell Lane
- WRENN ID
- tattered-steeple-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- 79, Sopwell Lane, AL1 1RN
- OS grid reference
- TL 148 068
- Coordinates
- 51.74832, -0.33774
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
79 Sopwell Lane is an earlier 18th-century house of two storeys and two windows, situated on the north side of Sopwell Lane. The house has a moderately pitched, hipped roof covered in tiles. The front is cement rendered, with a low plinth. The windows are set within shallow segmental arches, appearing almost flush with the render. Ground-floor windows are sash windows with glazing bars, while first-floor windows are casements with glazing bars, all set in box frames. The front door is contained within a wooden doorcase featuring a bracketed open pediment with a dentil cornice.
Local climate
79, Sopwell Lane sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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