Elephant and Castle Public House is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Public house. 5 related planning applications.
Elephant and Castle Public House
- WRENN ID
- muted-entrance-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Elephant and Castle Public House, Amwell Lane, Wheathampstead, AL4 8EA
- OS grid reference
- TL 167 131
- Coordinates
- 51.80501, -0.30806
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Elephant and Castle Public House is an early 18th-century building with a timber frame, and its chimney stacks may date back to the 16th century. The structure was cased in red brick in 1794, which is marked on a brick. There is a 20th-century extension, and the roof is covered with plain tiles. The building is single-storey and features one plastered and timber-frame dormer that is dated 1714. There are two glazing-bar casements, with the left one having a segmental head. The public house also has two wooden door frames from the 18th or 19th century, both with modern gabled hoods. Inside, there are single bays on either side of a large stack located at the center-left. Additionally, there is a flint-faced well, which may be medieval, that is exposed inside the building.
Local climate
Elephant and Castle Public 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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