20, Lower Luton Road is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. House. 11 related planning applications.
20, Lower Luton Road
- WRENN ID
- tilted-timber-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- 20, Lower Luton Road, Wheathampstead, AL4 8QZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 176 143
- Coordinates
- 51.81553, -0.29395
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 20 Lower Luton Road is a house built in 1840, as indicated by the date on the chimney stack. It is constructed from yellow gault brick and features stuccoed window lintels. The roof is hipped and covered with slate. The building has two storeys above a cellar.
The front facade includes two recessed sash windows on either side of a blank central window. The entrance door, located beneath the central window, has two long panels and is framed by a wooden surround with panelled reveals and slender Tuscan pilasters. A moulded cornice and flat hood complete the entrance.
On the west elevation, there are three similar windows and a one-window extension from around 1920. The interior is well-preserved, featuring moulded frames and fittings, as well as simple Tuscan-style fire surrounds.
Local climate
20, Lower Luton Road 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 — 11 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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