54, Fishpool Street is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. House.

54, Fishpool Street

WRENN ID
spare-bastion-fen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 August 1971
Type
House
OS grid reference
TL 141 071
Coordinates
51.75165, -0.34718
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

54 Fishpool Street is a late 18th-century building that features a front added to a 17th-century range. It is two storeys high with three windows on the front. The building is constructed of red brick and has a steep, swept tiled roof with wooden box eaves. The first-floor windows are casements with glazing bars set in flush box frames, positioned under shallow segmental gauged brick arches. The ground floor has sash windows with glazing bars in flush moulded frames, topped with flat gauged brick arches.

The doorcase features an open pediment-shaped head with a dentil cornice and a cut soffit, supported by similar cornice ends over carved scrolled consoles on panelled pilasters. Within the pediment, there is a blank panel framed by tiny pilasters, adorned with Adam decoration on either side. The door has deep panelled reveals and is set under a cut and reeded architrave. At the rear, there is a weatherboarded extension with a hipped tiled gable.

Additionally, there is a memorial tablet from the 1914-18 period set into the wall, part of a series of plaques in St Albans that commemorate the fallen from individual streets and localities. The building is part of a group that includes Nos 24 to 46 (even) and Nos 50 to 54 (even).

Local climate

54, Fishpool Street 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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