Launay House and Pound Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1974. House. 2 related planning applications.
Launay House and Pound Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tenth-keep-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Launay House and Pound Cottage, Fish Street, Redbourn, AL3 7LP
- OS grid reference
- TL 108 120
- Coordinates
- 51.79654, -0.39443
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Launay House and Pound Cottage is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, dating from the 17th century or earlier. It features a timber frame structure that has been encased in early 19th century stucco and red brick. The building has a plain tile roof that is hipped at the west end and consists of two storeys and attics.
The central red brick section has dentilled brick eaves and a large ridge chimney stack at the east end. It includes two glazing bar casements and a flush panel door set in a moulded frame. The stuccoed block on the west side has a cellar and one first-floor sash window. On the east side, there is a small timber frame bay with a 20th-century red brick front. Adjacent to this is the former barn, known as Pound Cottage, which has an exposed timber frame, two casement windows, and box dormers.
Local climate
Launay House and Pound Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 10 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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