27 and 27a, College Street is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. Building. 1 related planning application.
27 and 27a, College Street
- WRENN ID
- kindled-courtyard-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1971
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 27 and 27a, College Street, AL3 4PW
- OS grid reference
- TL 145 073
- Coordinates
- 51.75275, -0.34235
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
27 and 27A, College Street are likely a building dating from the 16th or 17th century, with a Georgian facade. The building is two storeys high and has three windows. It has a high-pitched tiled roof. The first floor is pebble-dashed and features sash windows in slightly projecting box frames. The ground floor is rendered white. All windows are set within moulded wooden frames with shallow, segmental heads and contain glazing bars. A modern door is located at No 27A. No 27 has a 19th-century shop window on the ground floor. The east return features a flint plinth and is weatherboarded on the first floor. Nos 1 to 27A (odd) form a group.
Local climate
27 and 27a, College Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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 — 2 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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