2, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. A Victorian Shop. 2 related planning applications.
2, High Street
- WRENN ID
- plain-thatch-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Shop
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- 2, High Street, Wheathampstead, AL4 8BS
- OS grid reference
- TL 177 141
- Coordinates
- 51.81349, -0.2934
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 19th-century shop, originally the Corn Mill House. It is built of mauve brick with blue brick banding at the first-floor sill level and has a slate roof. The south elevation has a canted design. A shallow projection extends from the east side. The building is two storeys high, with first-floor sash windows on the south and east sides, each featuring a stucco lintel. Decorative wooden eaves are supported by thin carved brackets with shell motifs. The shop front is in a 20th-century Georgian style. There are four chimney stacks. The building is an important feature, marking the northern end of the High Street, and contributes to the group value alongside the Corn Mill.
Local climate
2, High Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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