The Country House Restaurant is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1974. Restaurant, inn. 11 related planning applications.
The Country House Restaurant
- WRENN ID
- eternal-corridor-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1974
- Type
- Restaurant, inn
- Address
- The Country House Restaurant, High Street, Redbourn, AL3 7LW
- OS grid reference
- TL 107 124
- Coordinates
- 51.79939, -0.39562
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Country House Restaurant is an inn that has been converted into a restaurant. It dates from the 16th and 17th centuries and features a timber frame construction. The front of the building was painted brick and dates from the early 19th century. The structure consists of two bays and a single-bay south extension that includes a carriage arch; this extension has an imitation timber frame. The 16th-century framing is visible on the north wall of the carriageway. There are four first-floor windows, with the one above the door being blind and the other three featuring thin glazing bars. The entrance has a segmental-headed door flanked by 20th-century casements. The roof is covered with plain tiles and has a rebuilt ridge stack located above the door. At the rear, there is an extension that is weatherboarded and has a slate roof.
Local climate
The Country House Restaurant 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 11 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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