69, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. House, shop, office. 6 related planning applications.

69, High Street

WRENN ID
quartered-pier-claret
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Type
House, shop, office
Address
69, High Street, Harpenden Town, AL5 2SL
OS grid reference
TL 133 145
Coordinates
51.81807, -0.35748
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 69 High Street is a house that has been converted into shops and offices. It dates from the late 17th century or early 18th century and features a timber-framed front range. At the rear, there is an earlier timber-framed wing. The front of the building has modern pargetting and a plain tile roof, with an internal stack on the south gable end. The north end is hipped and includes a small gabled dormer at the top. The building has two storeys and attics, with three first-floor windows in flush wood frames; the center window is an early 19th-century sash. There is a central gabled dormer and an early to mid-19th-century gabled porch with a moulded brick frame and a Tudor hood mould. On the left side of the front, there is a shop projection from the 1970s. The rear extension is made of painted brick and roughcast, with the left end being a late 19th-century addition. The rear also features two 19th-century sash and casement windows, along with a 19th-century flush panel door that has a cut bracketed hood.

Local climate

69, High Street 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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