Saracens Head Public House is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1974. Public house. 5 related planning applications.
Saracens Head Public House
- WRENN ID
- quartered-copper-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1974
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Saracens Head Public House, High Street, Redbourn, AL3 7LE
- OS grid reference
- TL 108 121
- Coordinates
- 51.79708, -0.39393
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Saracens Head Public House is a building that likely dates back to the 17th century. It features a timber frame and has a brick front added in 1832, which is now painted. The building underwent alterations around 1900 and has a slate roof. It stands two storeys tall and has three wide segmental-headed windows on the ground floor. Originally, there were two arched doors, but the right one is now blocked, while the left door has a porch hood. The first floor has recessed sash windows, with the outer ones set beneath mock timbered gablets. There are two red brick chimney stacks on the front ridge, both likely from an earlier period. Inside, the layout consists of three bays on a lobby entrance plan, with exposed chamfered beams.
Local climate
Saracens Head Public House 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 — 1 transaction since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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