The Dell is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Dell
- WRENN ID
- sombre-pewter-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Dell, Lamer Lane, Wheathampstead, AL4 8RU
- OS grid reference
- TL 177 157
- Coordinates
- 51.82787, -0.29326
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dell is a house, originally part of a semi-detached pair, dating from the 18th century. It features a timber frame with a painted brick base and is clad in black weatherboarding. The roof is covered with plain tiles and has an original central ridge stack. The building has two storeys and includes four wood casement windows, with the two in the center fitted with louvred shutters. There is a plank door at the left end and a corresponding opening at the right end that contains a 19th-century casement window. Inside, the house has chamfered floor beams.
Local climate
The Dell 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
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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