The Old Plough Public House is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Public house.

The Old Plough Public House

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Type
Public house
Address
The Old Plough Public House, Lamer Lane, Wheathampstead
OS grid reference
TL 176 156
Coordinates
51.82748, -0.29478
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Plough Public House is a disused building that dates from the mid or late 18th century. It features a chequered red brick casing, likely covering an earlier structure. The eastern gable end reveals an exposed timber frame with brick infill. The roof is finished with plain tiles. There is a large internal chimney stack on the western gable end and an external 18th-century stack on the eastern end, which was extended in the 19th century. The building has two storeys and includes a floor band. On the ground floor, there are two glazing bar casements flanking a door set in a moulded wood frame from the 18th century. The ground floor windows are blocked and have segmental heads. An early 20th-century porch is present, along with an 18th-century gabled rear extension that has been cased in the 19th century.

Local climate

The Old Plough Public House 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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