142-148, Fishpool Street is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. A 17th century House. 1 related planning application.
142-148, Fishpool Street
- WRENN ID
- lone-brass-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1971
- Type
- House
- Period
- 17th century
- Address
- 142-148, Fishpool Street, AL3 4RZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 140 074
- Coordinates
- 51.75377, -0.34968
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a group of 17th-century houses located at 142 to 148 Fishpool Street. They are two-storey buildings with steeply pitched tiled roofs. Numbers 142 and 148 have boxed wood eaves cornices, while the remaining houses display exposed rafter ends.
Numbers 142 and 148 each have two windows, and numbers 144 and 146 each have one. All the first-floor windows are small sash windows with glazing bars set within slightly projecting, moulded frames. Number 142 has one sash window with glazing bars and one three-light casement window with glazing bars. Number 144 has a pivoted casement window, and numbers 146 and 148 have casement windows, all featuring very thick glazing bars and small panes of glass. The houses have plain plank front doors, each topped with a plain hood supported by curved brackets. A Dutch door is present on the left side of number 148.
Numbers 142 to 174 (even) are designated as a group.
Local climate
142-148, Fishpool Street 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.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1995
- 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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