Viccars House is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. House.

Viccars House

WRENN ID
woven-kitchen-oak
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Viccars House, Harpenden Road, St. Michael
OS grid reference
TL 140 107
Coordinates
51.78369, -0.34747
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Viccars House is a house dating from the mid to late 17th century, with alterations made in the late 19th century. It is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and features a plain tile roof with parapeted gable ends. The house has two storeys and attics, with three windows. The right half of the house retains original walling and some old features, while the left half mirrors the right. The outer windows are two-storey canted bays with moulded stone mullions and transoms, and square leaded casements. There is a central door with a small stair window above it, and the central stack has been removed. The house also has a moulded stone floor band and cornice, with long and short quoins at the ends and canted bays. The gable end features mullioned attics and internal late 19th-century stacks. Inside, there is an exposed floor beam on the right side of the ground floor. The house was illustrated by Buckler in 1839, showing the right side as it currently appears.

Local climate

Viccars House 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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