St Germains is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. House. 4 related planning applications.
St Germains
- WRENN ID
- bitter-zinc-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- St Germains, 18, St Michaels Street, AL3 4SH
- OS grid reference
- TL 136 073
- Coordinates
- 51.75355, -0.35468
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Germains is a house dating from around 1800, located on St Michael's Street. It is two storeys high and features five windows, along with a two-storey, one-window north extension that has a jettied front, indicating it is part of an earlier building to which the main house has been added. The façade is supported by four giant, flat pilasters—one at each end and one on either side of the central door—supporting a cornice band. Above this is a frieze, under the wide eaves soffit of a low-pitched, hipped slate roof. There is a band at the first floor level. The sash windows are set in flush, moulded frames, except for one modern casement on the ground floor. The entrance features a Doric doorcase with attached columns, a triglyph frieze, and a mutule cornice hood. The original six-panel door has a reeded cornice head, a patterned fanlight, and panelled reveals. The rear elevation also has two storeys and five windows, which are casements with transoms and gothic glazing in the heads, set under gothic arches. The ground floor features French windows that open to a paved loggia with a swept canopy supported by cast iron columns. Inside, there is a curved staircase with turned balusters and a cut string, dating from around 1800.
Local climate
St Germains 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings