68, Roestock Lane is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.
68, Roestock Lane
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-span-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- 68, Roestock Lane, Colney Heath, AL4 0QQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 210 060
- Coordinates
- 51.74012, -0.24816
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 68 Roestock Lane is a house dating from the late 17th century. It has a timber frame construction, with the ground floor rendered in 20th-century cement and the upper floor weatherboarded. The roof is steeply pitched and covered with plain tiles. The building is two storeys high and features four 20th-century leaded casement windows. The ground floor extends slightly forward and includes two leaded bow windows. There is a 20th-century porch on the right side of the house. A wide late 17th-century chimney stack with three flues is located towards the left of the roof, and there may be a staircase inside. On the left side, there is a lean-to that connects to a 20th-century garage.
Local climate
68, Roestock Lane sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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 2002
- 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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