71, 71a and 73, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. House, office.
71, 71a and 73, High Street
- WRENN ID
- broken-crypt-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House, office
- Address
- 71, 71a and 73, High Street, Harpenden Town
- OS grid reference
- TL 133 145
- Coordinates
- 51.81829, -0.35758
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 71, 71A, and 73 on High Street is a house that has been converted into offices. It likely dates from the mid-16th century and was extended on the south and west sides in the 17th and 18th centuries. The building features an exposed timber frame with white-painted brick infill and is arranged in an L shape over two storeys. The main range consists of two and a half bays, with the half bay on the south being a 17th-century addition. At the northern end, there is a 16th or 17th-century red brick chimney stack with four joined shafts. The front elevation displays small casement windows on the upper floor, including a twin 17th-century leaded light, while the ground floor has a shop front. The right wing has a lighter construction. Inside, there is a moulded floor beam with a V profile and a broad inglenook. The southern bay features a beam with chamfered stops.
Local climate
71, 71a and 73, High Street 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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