The Lower Red Lion is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. Public house. 1 related planning application.
The Lower Red Lion
- WRENN ID
- cold-loft-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1971
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Lower Red Lion, 34 and 36, Fishpool Street
- OS grid reference
- TL 142 071
- Coordinates
- 51.75169, -0.34643
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lower Red Lion is a 17th-century building located on Fishpool Street, featuring two storeys and four windows on the first floor. The exterior is cement-faced, with a moulded wooden eaves cornice beneath a high-pitched, tiled roof. On the first floor, there are some cast iron casements alongside some restored leaded casements. The ground floor has three modern doors alternating with three renewed windows, and there is a carriageway to the right. The rear elevation displays two steep gables. The Lower Red Lion is part of a group that includes Nos 24 to 46 (even) and Nos 50 to 54 (even).
Local climate
The Lower Red Lion 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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