Abbey Gate House is a Grade II* listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. A Post-Medieval Villa. 4 related planning applications.
Abbey Gate House
- WRENN ID
- tilted-cellar-dust
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1971
- Type
- Villa
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- Abbey Gate House, 4, Abbey Mill Lane, AL3 4HD
- OS grid reference
- TL 143 070
- Coordinates
- 51.75066, -0.34491
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbey Gate House is an early 19th century villa located on Abbey Mill Lane. This three-storey building is finished in stucco and features three windows across its facade, with some alterations made over time. It has a low-pitched, hipped slate roof with deep eaves.
The villa showcases sash windows with glazing bars on the first and second floors, with the rightmost windows being two-light. There are decorative bands at the second floor level and at the cills of the first floor. The second floor windows have plain reveals, while the first floor windows are adorned with moulded architraves, friezes, and cornices. The left-hand ground floor window has a plain reveal but has been replaced, while the right-hand window is a modern canted bay.
A projecting central porch features pilasters and a cornice, leading to a round-arched door with a radial fanlight. The inner door has panelled reveals with a reeded cornice head and a patterned fanlight above. The building also has a stuccoed plinth.
Local climate
Abbey Gate House 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 — 4 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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