The Plough Inn is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Public house. 4 related planning applications.
The Plough Inn
- WRENN ID
- cold-soffit-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Plough Inn, Sleapshyde Lane, Colney Heath, AL4 0SE
- OS grid reference
- TL 202 069
- Coordinates
- 51.74854, -0.25992
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Plough Inn is a public house that dates from the late 17th century, with an extension added to the left in the mid-19th century. The building features a timber frame, with a painted brick ground floor and extension, and a plastered upper floor. It has a thatched roof, which includes two thatched dormer windows. The right gable end is notable for its large external red brick chimney stack, which has two shafts and a sloping base. The inn is one storey high with attics and includes two glazing bar casements. There is a 20th-century thatched porch, and the extension features one first-floor segmental-headed casement. Additionally, there is a circa 1960 extension on the left and rear of the building.
Local climate
The Plough Inn 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 — 3 transactions since 2017
- 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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