13, Fishpool Street is a Grade II* listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. Residential. 2 related planning applications.

13, Fishpool Street

WRENN ID
tired-threshold-oak
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 May 1950
Type
Residential
Address
13, Fishpool Street, AL3 4RS
OS grid reference
TL 142 071
Coordinates
51.75151, -0.34595
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 13 Fishpool Street, sometimes referred to as "Godmersham" or "Bankart House," is a late 16th century or early 17th century building. It has three storeys and two windows, featuring a plastered front with an overhanging first floor. The roof is very high-pitched and tiled. The first and second floors display pargeted decoration with geometrical patterns framed by broad, raised borders of floral design. The windows on the first and second floors are three-light, leaded casements set in wide, flush, box frames. The ground floor windows are 18th century sashes with glazing bars, also in flush, box frames. There is a later, plain, recessed door. This building is part of a group that includes Nos 1 to 15 (odd).

Local climate

13, Fishpool Street 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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