The Brown Owl Restaurant is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. Restaurant. 1 related planning application.
The Brown Owl Restaurant
- WRENN ID
- swift-garret-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1971
- Type
- Restaurant
- Address
- The Brown Owl Restaurant, 13, George Street, AL3 4ER
- OS grid reference
- TL 145 071
- Coordinates
- 51.7515, -0.34259
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Brown Owl Restaurant, located at 13 George Street, is an early 19th-century building that stands three storeys tall. It features two windows on the second floor and three windows on the first floor. The exterior is made of painted brick and includes a brick cornice, while the roof has a moderate pitch covered in tiles. The sash windows, which have glazing bars, are set in near-flush box frames. The first-floor windows are adorned with segmental gauged brick arches. On the ground floor, there is a later 19th-century shop front that includes scrolled brackets supporting the cornice and pilasters flanking the doors, along with a panelled dado. The building is part of a group that includes Nos 11 to 16 on the same street.
Local climate
The Brown Owl Restaurant 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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