North Block St Albans School is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. School.
North Block St Albans School
- WRENN ID
- woven-cobalt-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1971
- Type
- School
- Address
- North Block St Albans School, Romeland
- OS grid reference
- TL 143 071
- Coordinates
- 51.75154, -0.34473
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
North Block at St Albans School is an early 20th-century building constructed from flint, with random red and yellow bricks and stone dressings. It features a battlemented parapet above a cornice and a brick-only plinth. The building is two storeys high and has five windows, which are three-light, stone-mullioned, leaded casements. The first-floor windows are set beneath square hoodmoulds, except for the central window, which has tracery under a four-centred arch.
On the ground floor, there is a central, projecting, battlemented stone porch that contains a door under a four-centred arch with a hoodmould. The cornice of the porch continues with a string course above the ground floor windows. The building is supported by stepped, diagonal buttresses with stone quoins at the corners, and there are also stone diagonal buttresses at the angles of the porch.
This building, along with the Abbey Gate and other St Albans School structures, forms a cohesive group.
Local climate
North Block St Albans School 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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