Court House (Town Hall) is a Grade II* listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. Town hall. 17 related planning applications.
Court House (Town Hall)
- WRENN ID
- eternal-corbel-harvest
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1950
- Type
- Town hall
- Address
- Court House (Town Hall), Market Place, AL3 5DJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 147 072
- Coordinates
- 51.75217, -0.339
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Court House, also known as the Town Hall, is a large classical building located in the Market Place, constructed in 1826 by George Smith. It features two storeys, with the upper storey serving as a piano nobile. The front of the building has a central portico supported by four fluted Ionic columns, along with an entablature and a pediment topped with an acroterion. This portico is set on a projecting ground floor podium that has three sash windows, while the side bays on the ground floor are blank. On the first floor, there are three large windows with glazing bars, framed by flat pilasters. Broader pilasters at the corners support the entablature, and behind it, a low-pitched leaded roof culminates in a pediment on each side.
Local climate
Court House (Town Hall) 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 — 17 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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