157 and 159, Verulam Road is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. House. 1 related planning application.
157 and 159, Verulam Road
- WRENN ID
- first-railing-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- 157 and 159, Verulam Road, AL3 4DW
- OS grid reference
- TL 141 075
- Coordinates
- 51.75531, -0.34723
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 157 and 159 on Verulam Road are an early 19th-century pair of houses. They are finished in stucco and feature a frieze, cornice, and a blocking course that conceals the roof. Each house has two storeys and a basement, with two windows in the central section and a two-storey, one-window entrance extension that is set back. The sash windows on the first floor have plain reveals and glazing bars, although the right-hand window of No 159 is blocked. The ground floor windows are in a slightly projecting section with a segment-arched design that rises to a band at the first floor. The entrance features a round-headed door with a cornice head and a radial fanlight set in a round, arched recess. There is a basement plinth. Nos 157 to 165 (odd) form a group.
Local climate
157 and 159, Verulam 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- 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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