The Fighting Cocks Public House is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
The Fighting Cocks Public House
- WRENN ID
- first-basalt-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1950
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Fighting Cocks Public House, Abbey Mill Lane, AL3 4HE
- OS grid reference
- TL 142 068
- Coordinates
- 51.74898, -0.34687
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fighting Cocks Public House is an octagonal, two-storey timber-framed building that dates back to the 16th century. It features a high-pitched, pointed tiled roof and has plaster filling. The heavy timbers are widely spaced and include tension braces. The first floor has two-light casement windows, some with broad glazing bars, set in flush, box frames, while the ground floor also has two similar windows.
There are various extensions to the building, including a contemporary two-storey extension to the northwest, which has a gabled, high-pitched tiled roof and a weather-boarded ground floor on the northeast side. A tall, square, tapered external chimney is located on the northeast. To the southwest, there is a one-storey pent extension that is weatherboarded and has a steep tiled roof with visible rafter ends, along with a stepped rectangular external chimney at the southwest corner. Additional later pent extensions of one and two storeys have slated roofs on the east and west sides. Inside, the main ground floor room features a beamed ceiling and an open fireplace.
Local climate
The Fighting Cocks Public House 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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