Premises Occupied by Uptons Ltd is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. House.

Premises Occupied by Uptons Ltd

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 August 1971
Type
House
Address
Premises Occupied by Uptons Ltd, Sovereign Alley (Off Market Place)
OS grid reference
TL 147 072
Coordinates
51.75191, -0.33931
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The premises occupied by Uptons Ltd is a small house located at the rear of Nos 30 and 32 Market Place, dating from the 17th century. It is a two-storey building with two windows beneath a high-pitched, tiled roof. The first floor has a deep overhang supported by three arched braces. On the first floor, there are 18th-century sash windows set in near-flush, box frames. The ground floor features a modern window on the left and a Yorkshire sash window on the right. The ground floor also displays square timber framing, which is partly filled with brick and partly with decorative pargetting.

Local climate

Premises Occupied by Uptons Ltd 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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