72 and 72a, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1973. A C17 House, shop. 1 related planning application.
72 and 72a, High Street
- WRENN ID
- gilded-floor-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1973
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- 72 and 72a, High Street, Harpenden Town, AL5 2SP
- OS grid reference
- TL 133 144
- Coordinates
- 51.81757, -0.35764
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 72 and 72A on High Street are a house and shop dating from the 17th century, constructed with a timber frame and plastered exterior. The building features a high-pitched roof covered with renewed clay tiles and lacks a chimney stack. It has two storeys, with the first floor displaying three 19th or 20th century wooden glazing bar casements. The ground floor includes a continuous early 20th century shop fascia, with some original surrounds still retained. There are recent extensions at the rear.
Local climate
72 and 72a, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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