Newsagent is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1974. House, shop. 2 related planning applications.
Newsagent
- WRENN ID
- scarred-joist-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1974
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Newsagent, 22, High Street, Redbourn, AL3 7LL
- OS grid reference
- TL 108 121
- Coordinates
- 51.79706, -0.39437
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early or mid-16th century timber-frame house with a late 17th century gabled rear extension and a mid-19th century painted brick facade. The south-facing elevation, which fronts onto Fish Street, is plastered. The roof is covered with plain tiles. The building is two storeys high and has one first-floor flush sash window with a moulded frame. A 20th-century shop front occupies the ground floor.
The shop’s interior retains substantial 16th-century timber beams and joists, including long dragon beams that are shaped like an 'S' when viewed from above. The rear wing features a large red brick chimney stack, built between the 17th and 18th centuries, on its northern side. The house was formerly part of an inn.
Local climate
Newsagent 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 — 1 transaction since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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