Ackroyds, Bakers is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1974. House, shop. 3 related planning applications.
Ackroyds, Bakers
- WRENN ID
- vast-joist-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1974
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Ackroyds, Bakers, 80, High Street, Redbourn, AL3 7LN
- OS grid reference
- TL 106 124
- Coordinates
- 51.79975, -0.39631
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house and shop dating to the 16th and 17th centuries, located on the west side of Redbourn High Street. The building has undergone several alterations over time. The ground floor is brick, with a more recent addition on the north side and a colour-washed section on the south side. The roof is steeply pitched and covered with plain tiles, with a 20th-century red brick gable end on the north side. The upper floor has three 1st-floor casement windows with glazing bars. A modern shop front and bow window are present. The interior of the south side features a chamfer-stopped beam and a restored inglenook fireplace.
Local climate
Ackroyds, Bakers 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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