The Dene (Including Front Wall and Railings) is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 1951. House. 6 related planning applications.
The Dene (Including Front Wall and Railings)
- WRENN ID
- moated-chancel-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 July 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Dene (Including Front Wall and Railings), 15, Southdown Road, Harpenden Town, AL5 1PD
- OS grid reference
- TL 136 139
- Coordinates
- 51.81296, -0.35284
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dene is a house dating from the late 18th century, constructed of red brick with a hipped plain tile roof. It stands three storeys high and features narrow full-height canted bay windows on either side of a central door. The windows are sash style with thin glazing bars. The door itself has two flush panels, two fielded panels, and two glazed panels, with flush reveals and moulded architraves. Shaped consoles and a dentilled cornice are present, along with dentilled brick eaves. At the rear, there are two-storey gabled projections on either side. Access to the door is via three stone steps, flanked by simple iron railings. The early 19th-century front garden wall connects on both sides, topped with stone coping. The wall has an elliptical plan and features straight iron spikes alternating with spikes that have double-scroll heads, along with two gates.
Local climate
The Dene (Including Front Wall and Railings) 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 80% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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