The Black Lion Public House is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. Public house. 6 related planning applications.
The Black Lion Public House
- WRENN ID
- brooding-eave-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1950
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Black Lion Public House, 198, Fishpool Street, AL3 4SB
- OS grid reference
- TL 138 074
- Coordinates
- 51.75446, -0.35133
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Black Lion Public House dates to circa 1700. It is a two-storey building with an attic, originally comprising two houses. The building has eight windows on the first floor and a front door with six ground-floor windows. It is constructed of red brick, featuring decorative blue brick headers. A brick plinth is present, with cement rendering on the left side. The roof is steeply pitched and tiled, with six gabled dormers, and includes largely restored tall chimney stacks. A deep, moulded eaves cornice is visible, and the join between the original two houses is evident within the brickwork. The first floor retains transomed and mullioned casement windows with glazing bars. The ground floor windows are replacement sashes with glazing bars, set within shallow segmental gauged brick arches. A brick string runs along the first floor, mirroring the segmental curve of the window arches. Four steps lead to the plain front door.
Local climate
The Black Lion Public House 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 — 4 transactions since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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