Cunningtons Lighting Centre; Walnut Tree is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. A C18 House, shop.
Cunningtons Lighting Centre; Walnut Tree
- WRENN ID
- south-postern-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Cunningtons Lighting Centre; Walnut Tree, Church Street, Wheathampstead
- OS grid reference
- TL 176 139
- Coordinates
- 51.81147, -0.29521
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cunningtons Lighting Centre, also known as Walnut Tree, is a house and shop that forms a single range. It features a timber frame and dates from the late 18th century or early 19th century, with a right gabled projection. There is a 20th-century front extension. The building is constructed of plastered brick and has a plain tile roof topped with a tall 17th-century ridge chimney stack. It includes three 17th-century gabled dormers with glazing bar casements, while the ground floor has modern casements and a shop front. The projection displays dentilled brick eaves and a recessed casement, along with a large wrought iron sign bracket on the gable end. Inside, Walnut Tree features chamfered floor beams, an inglenook, and a 17th-century half spiral staircase.
Local climate
Cunningtons Lighting Centre; Walnut Tree 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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