68 and 70, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1974. House, shop. 8 related planning applications.
68 and 70, High Street
- WRENN ID
- watchful-floor-elder
- 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
- 68 and 70, High Street, Redbourn, AL3 7LN
- OS grid reference
- TL 106 124
- Coordinates
- 51.79949, -0.39612
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house and shop dating to the 18th century, with alterations and casing from the 19th century, likely built upon an earlier timber-frame structure. The right side (No. 70) has a roughcast upper floor, while the left side (No. 68) displays an exposed timber frame and brick, which likely represents a 16th-century cross wing. The roof is covered with plain tiles. The building is two storeys high. The first floor has three sash windows from the mid-19th century, with flush wooden frames; the two right-hand windows lack glazing bars. A 20th-century shop front and entrance doors are present on the ground floor.
Local climate
68 and 70, High Street 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 — 3 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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