Draper and Post Office is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1974. House, shop. 9 related planning applications.
Draper and Post Office
- WRENN ID
- proud-pedestal-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1974
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Draper and Post Office, 73, High Street, Redbourn, AL3 7LW
- OS grid reference
- TL 107 124
- Coordinates
- 51.79949, -0.39568
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house and shop, likely originating in the 17th century or earlier, with alterations and additions dating to around 1830. The front facade is brick, while the rear includes a timber-frame cross wing. The roof is steeply pitched and covered in plain tiles, featuring a restored chimney stack positioned off-centre. The building is two storeys high. The upper floor has four regularly spaced sash windows with flush moulded frames. The ground floor is colour-washed. The shop front features two entrances and four windows, all with reeded architraves; the second window from the south side retains its original four-arched upper lights. At the rear, a deep, gabled cross wing extends from the north side, built of red brick with stone surrounds to the first-floor and attic windows. A weatherboarded gabled stair turret located in the angle is likely of 17th-century origin.
Local climate
Draper and Post Office 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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