Marlborough Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. Almshouses. 23 related planning applications.
Marlborough Buildings
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-lancet-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1950
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Marlborough Buildings, Hatfield Road, AL1 3RW
- OS grid reference
- TL 150 074
- Coordinates
- 51.75379, -0.33442
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Marlborough Buildings is a pair of 2-storey almshouses constructed in red brick, built by Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, in 1736. The buildings form three sides of an open courtyard and were restored in 1850, although the interior remains unchanged. They feature deep eaves beneath steep tiled roofs, with ten tall brick stacks. The central three windows and the end facades of the wings are topped with pediments, with the central pediment displaying the Marlborough arms carved in stone. The entire structure sits on a low stone plinth and is accented by a continuous stone band between the floors. The windows are transomed and mullioned, fitted with modern lead glazing in an intricate pattern, with eleven windows along the central range and nine on each flank. There are nine plain doors at intervals, framed by simple stone architraves and topped with flat stone hoods. The central three windows are dressed with stone.
Local climate
Marlborough Buildings 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 — 23 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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