83-89, Sopwell Lane is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
83-89, Sopwell Lane
- WRENN ID
- riven-pavement-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1971
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 83-89, Sopwell Lane, AL1 1RN
- OS grid reference
- TL 148 068
- Coordinates
- 51.74826, -0.33756
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a group of four cottages, dating to around 1700, located on the north side of Sopwell Lane. They are arranged as two pairs, each with two storeys. The cottages have moderately pitched tiled roofs. Numbers 83 and 85 are constructed of red brick with three windows each. Numbers 87 and 89 are weatherboarded, each with two windows. A brick dentil cornice is present on numbers 83 and 85. The windows are casements with glazing bars within flush, boxed frames. They have renewed, shallow segmental brick arches over the ground floor windows of numbers 83 and 85. The doors have been replaced and fitted with bracketed hoods. Numbers 81 to 89 (odd) are designated as a group.
Local climate
83-89, Sopwell Lane 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.
- Sale history — 13 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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