The Fox Public House is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. A C18 Public house. 6 related planning applications.
The Fox Public House
- WRENN ID
- outer-gargoyle-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Fox Public House, Luton Road, Harpenden Rural, AL5 3QE
- OS grid reference
- TL 111 161
- Coordinates
- 51.83316, -0.3878
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fox Public House is a public house located on Luton Road in Kinsbourne Green. It was built in the late 18th century as a worker's cottage and became an inn in 1820. The building features a vitrified red brick casing over a two-bay timber frame on the left side, with a one-bay extension from around 1900 on the right made of mauve brick. It stands two storeys tall and has a weatherboarded lounge extension added in 1965 at the right end. The 18th-century section includes two three-light casement windows, with segmental heads on the ground floor. The roof is covered with plain tiles and has end chimney stacks. The central entrance door is accompanied by a porch dating from around 1900. Inside, the building has chamfered beams.
Local climate
The Fox Public House 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.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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