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
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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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