The Cross Keys Public House is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Public house. 1 related planning application.
The Cross Keys Public House
- WRENN ID
- dusted-alcove-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Cross Keys Public House, 39, High Street, Harpenden Town, AL5 2SD
- OS grid reference
- TL 133 143
- Coordinates
- 51.81671, -0.35653
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cross Keys Public House is a public house located at No 39 on the east side of High Street in Harpenden. It dates from the late 18th century and features a painted brick front, with an earlier timber frame core. The building has a plain tile gable end roof and stands two storeys high. It includes a floor band and dentilled brick eaves. There are three windows, with the left one being an early 19th-century addition. The central door is framed by a moulded wood surround, simple pilasters, and a cut bracket hood. On either side of the door are wide three-light casements with cambered heads, and the windows have 20th-century leaded lights.
Local climate
The Cross Keys 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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