The Bricket Picture House and Little Bricket is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. House. 4 related planning applications.

The Bricket Picture House and Little Bricket

WRENN ID
silent-belfry-smoke
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
The Bricket Picture House and Little Bricket, School Lane, St. Stephen, AL2 3XU
OS grid reference
TL 127 004
Coordinates
51.69133, -0.37018
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This house, now divided into two residences, was built around 1890 by the architect Frederick Wallen for his own use. It is composed of two main sections: The Bricket Picture House and Little Bricket. The front section is constructed of red and brown brick with cement bands, while the upper floor features mosaic panels beneath a slightly jettied half-timbered design. The roof is covered with machine tiles. The front section is one and a half storeys high, and the rear section is single storey with attics.

The front part of the house has glazing bar casements, with small panes at the top and bottom of the ground floor windows. There is a square bay window carried through the eaves on the left side, and a central square window bay on the ground floor of the south gable end, with a trefoil-headed casement above. A timbered gable projects slightly. The upper floor of the front section is notable for a remarkable set of plaster reliefs, depicting late 19th-century sporting activities. These reliefs, in red plaster with brown and white backgrounds, are set within the timber frame and extend around three sides of the block. Scenes include a hunt, a four-man scull, and a wrestling match on the front elevations, continuing onto the north gable end. The south gable end reliefs are weathered and depict a cricket and rugby match.

The rear section, Little Bricket, lacks the relief decorations and features half-timbered gables and dormers, with a tile-hung attic on the north side. A projecting wing on the south side is believed to have been a chapel.

Local climate

The Bricket Picture House and Little Bricket 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% 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 — 5 transactions since 1998
  • 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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