Donnington House is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. House. 1 related planning application.
Donnington House
- WRENN ID
- tenth-remnant-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- Donnington House, 40, St Peter's Street, AL1 3NP
- OS grid reference
- TL 149 074
- Coordinates
- 51.7542, -0.3363
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Donnington House, located at 40 St Peter's Street, is a mid-18th century building featuring three storeys and five windows. The structure is constructed of blue brick with red brick dressings, complemented by a stone cornice and a brick parapet. A stone band runs along the first floor, and there is a stone plinth at the base. The sash windows, which have glazing bars in broad, near-flush frames, are topped with gauged, segmental brick arches, except on the ground floor where the sashes have been replaced with leaded panes.
The entrance boasts a prostyle porch supported by paired Tuscan columns and an entablature that includes a triglyph frieze and mutule cornice. There are three steps leading up to the door, which features a moulded architrave and a patterned fanlight. The property is enclosed by cast iron railings with spearhead standards and pineapple finials.
Inside, there is a staircase with spiral-turned balusters and a cut string. The hall and some rooms retain their original panelling. Donnington House is part of a group with Nos 28 to 46 (even) and No 50.
Local climate
Donnington House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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