Dolphins is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1971. House. 4 related planning applications.
Dolphins
- WRENN ID
- nether-pewter-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dolphins, 11, the Hill, Wheathampstead, AL4 8PW
- OS grid reference
- TL 177 137
- Coordinates
- 51.81037, -0.29369
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 11, known as Dolphins, is a small house dating from the mid to late 17th century. It exhibits an exposed timber frame with brick nogging, all painted white. A substantial red brick chimney stack is located on the south gable end, featuring two coped offsets and corbelled caps. The house is arranged over one storey and attics. The ground floor has two 20th-century leaded casement windows. Two small gabled dormers are present, each containing 19th-century casements. Inside, the house has two bays with chamfer-stopped spine beams with run-out stops, and a clasped purlin roof with straight braces. The south gable end of the roof shows evidence of blocked mullioned windows.
Local climate
Dolphins 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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