15 and 16, West Common is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Cottage terrace.

15 and 16, West Common

WRENN ID
brooding-paling-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Type
Cottage terrace
Address
15 and 16, West Common, Harpenden Town
OS grid reference
TL 135 134
Coordinates
51.80843, -0.355
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos 15 and 16 on West Common are a late 18th century cottage terrace with a red brick exterior and a core that is either from the 17th or 18th century and timber-framed. The building features a steep-pitched roof covered with plain and machine tiles, and a rebuilt central ridge stack. It stands two storeys high and has a floor band. There are six 20th century casement windows, with the left two located in a slightly later 18th century front that has a higher floor band. The ground floor windows are mostly in original camber-headed openings, while there are three original openings on the first floor. The right four windows have lighter brick dressings around the jambs. The northern gable end displays exposed framing and has an 18th century external stack.

Local climate

15 and 16, West Common 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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