27, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1974. House.
27, High Street
- WRENN ID
- half-portal-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- 27, High Street, London Colney, AL2 1RE
- OS grid reference
- TL 181 037
- Coordinates
- 51.71991, -0.2915
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 27 High Street is a house that was formerly a shop. It dates from the 17th century and has a timber frame that was cased in brick in the 18th century. The building has a plain tile roof and is two storeys high, featuring a floor band. The upper floor has three glazing bar casements from around 1983. On the ground floor, there is a double-front shop front from the 19th or 20th century on the left, and garage doors on the right. To the left, there is an 18th-century rear wing with an external stack on the gable end, and beyond this are 20th-century extensions. Inside, the building has exposed chamfer-stopped floor beams and wall studs.
Local climate
27, High Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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