51, SOPWELL LANE (See details for further address information) is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. House.
51, SOPWELL LANE (See details for further address information)
- WRENN ID
- worn-banister-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1971
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- TL 147 068
- Coordinates
- 51.74864, -0.33855
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 51 on Sopwell Lane, dating from around 1700, is now part of No 49. This building has two storeys and features two windows. It is constructed of red brick with a brick plinth. The roof is moderately high-pitched, swept, and tiled, topped with a central brick chimney. The eaves are designed to accommodate first-floor casement windows set in slightly projecting box frames. There are two steps leading to a later door on the left, which is situated under a segmental brick arch. The left-hand ground floor window, which is under a gauged segmental brick arch, has a modern casement in an old, flush box frame, while the right-hand window is also modern.
Local climate
51, SOPWELL LANE (See details for further address information) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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