Hare and Hounds Public House is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. Public house. 5 related planning applications.

Hare and Hounds Public House

WRENN ID
frozen-pavement-jay
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 August 1971
Type
Public house
Address
Hare and Hounds Public House, 104, Sopwell Lane, AL1 1RL
OS grid reference
TL 149 067
Coordinates
51.74787, -0.33669
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Hare and Hounds Public House is a building from the 17th century or earlier, featuring modern extensions to the right and rear. It has a high-pitched roof that has been renewed with machine tiles, along with a thick chimney stack that has also been renewed, located to the right of the center. The building is two storeys high and has five windows. It is timber framed with a plastered exterior. The first floor has old casement windows, while the ground floor features renewed sash windows. There are two steps down to a modern door that has been inserted on the left side. Inside, there is a small room with an inglenook fireplace and heavy beams, a close studded staircase well, and thick plank floors on the upper level.

Local climate

Hare and Hounds Public House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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