29, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1971. House and shop. 2 related planning applications.
29, High Street
- WRENN ID
- other-beam-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1971
- Type
- House and shop
- Address
- 29, High Street, Wheathampstead, AL4 8BB
- OS grid reference
- TL 177 140
- Coordinates
- 51.81258, -0.2935
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 29 High Street is a house and shop that dates from the mid-18th century, featuring an earlier timber-frame core. The front section is roughcast, while the southern side at the rear is made of chequered red brick. The northern elevation is mostly plain red brick. The building has a twin-pitched plain tile roof and stands two storeys high. It includes two first-floor sash windows and a 20th-century projecting shop on the ground floor. The southern side has a floor band, and there is an external oven chimney stack at the rear.
Local climate
29, 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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