417, Luton Road is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.
417, Luton Road
- WRENN ID
- ghost-mortar-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- 417, Luton Road, Harpenden Rural, AL5 3QE
- OS grid reference
- TL 114 160
- Coordinates
- 51.83215, -0.38439
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 18th-century house located on the southwest side of Luton Road in the rural parish of Harpenden, near Kinsbourne Green. The house has a renewed clay tile roof and gable ends with engaged chimney stacks built of red brick. The exterior is finished with roughcast rendering. It is two storeys high and features three leaded casement windows set in original openings. The central door is framed with pegged wood, and a modern door is present. An early 19th-century "County" fire insurance plaque is affixed above the door. A catslide roof extends from a rear projection, which is also timber-framed.
Local climate
417, Luton Road 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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