St Albans School Hall Block is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. School. 1 related planning application.
St Albans School Hall Block
- WRENN ID
- waiting-chapel-reed
- 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
- St Albans School Hall Block, Romeland, AL3 4HB
- OS grid reference
- TL 143 071
- Coordinates
- 51.75129, -0.34465
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Albans School Hall Block is a building constructed in 1907 by Percival Blow. It is two storeys high and features six windows. The exterior is made of flint with random red and yellow bricks, and it has a red brick parapet with stone dressings. The building includes stepped buttresses with stone quoins, which are diagonal at the corners. There is a stone plinth with moulded coping above a brick lower plinth, similar to the Gatehouse.
The windows are in the Perpendicular style, with tracery on both floors; the first-floor windows have 4-centred arches, while the ground-floor windows are flat-arched. Stone panels are located between the ground and first-floor windows. A bridge at the first-floor level connects to another block to the north. The rear elevation features a cornice and a battlemented parapet, with stepped buttresses between the windows, which are all mullioned casements of two, three, and four lights, under hoodmoulds. The building has stone quoins at the angles.
The Abbey Gate and St Albans School buildings are part of a group.
Local climate
St Albans School Hall Block 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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