London Coal Duty Marker adjoining south corner of garden to Queens Head Public House is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Marker.
London Coal Duty Marker adjoining south corner of garden to Queens Head Public House
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Marker
- OS grid reference
- TL 206 057
- Coordinates
- 51.73777, -0.25421
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The London Coal Duty Marker, located at the south corner of the garden to the Queens Head Public House in Colney Heath, was erected between 1861 and 1862 to indicate the limit of coal duty in the London area. This cast iron post stands about one and a half metres high and is painted white. It features chamfered corners and roll mouldings that form a capital. The front of the marker displays the City of London crest along with the inscription: '24 & 25 Vict Cap 42'. The plinth bears the maker's mark of Henry Grissell iron works, located at Regents Canal, London. This marker is one of four in the parish and is considered a very well preserved example, likely the best in Hertfordshire.
Local climate
London Coal Duty Marker adjoining south corner of garden to Queens Head Public House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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