4, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1973. House and shop. 5 related planning applications.
4, High Street
- WRENN ID
- upper-attic-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1973
- Type
- House and shop
- Address
- 4, High Street, Wheathampstead, AL4 8AA
- OS grid reference
- TL 177 141
- Coordinates
- 51.81337, -0.29358
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 4, High Street, Wheathampstead, is a house and shop dating to the 17th century. Originally listed as The Old Post Office, the ground floor is clad in plaster and painted brick, while the upper floor is roughcast. The roof is slate-covered. There are three late 19th-century casement windows to the upper floor, set within eaves dormer gables. A 19th-century flat-hooded door is on the left-hand side, and a 19th-century shop window is on the right. The interior features a lower-ceilinged bay on the left, potentially a former cross-wing. A partially weatherboarded rear projection, likely contemporary with the main structure, is also present.
Local climate
4, High 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 — 1 transaction since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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