20 and 22, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. House pair. 11 related planning applications.

20 and 22, High Street

WRENN ID
waning-postern-pigeon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Type
House pair
Address
20 and 22, High Street, Sandridge, AL4 9DJ
OS grid reference
TL 170 104
Coordinates
51.78076, -0.30523
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a pair of houses located on the east side of High Street in Sandridge. The core of the building dates back to the 17th century, with a later red brick facade added in the late 18th century. The houses are timber-framed and have a plain tile roof. The front elevation features three regularly spaced 19th and 20th-century windows with glazing bars. The ground-floor windows have slightly cambered brick arches. There are two 20th-century doors, each with a wide, bracketed hood. A late 17th or early 18th-century external chimney stack is situated on the south end of the building; the red brick walling at this end appears to be earlier than the brickwork on the front. The rear of the building displays three 17th and 18th-century gables, which are plastered but retain red brick side walls. The northernmost section of the building is likely the oldest, containing a large internal chimney stack from the 17th century with joined square shafts. A 20th-century lean-to has been added beyond.

Local climate

20 and 22, High 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 — 3 transactions since 1998
  • Related listed building consents — 11 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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