26 and 28, Spencer Street is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. House. 9 related planning applications.
26 and 28, Spencer Street
- WRENN ID
- cold-chancel-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- 26 and 28, Spencer Street, AL3 5EG
- OS grid reference
- TL 146 073
- Coordinates
- 51.75307, -0.33998
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 19th-century pair of houses located on Spencer Street. Each house is three storeys high and has a single window. They are constructed of red brick with decorative blue brick headers. The roofs are low-pitched and slate-covered, with a visible soffit. A central brick chimney is present. The recessed sash windows have gauged, flat red brick arches and glazing bars. The doorways have round arches, also with glazing bars, and reeded cornice heads. Number 28 features a patterned fanlight above the door. These houses are part of a group that includes numbers 8 to 14 (even) and 18 to 50 (even) on Spencer Street.
Local climate
26 and 28, Spencer 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 2010
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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