Walls Surrounding Garden of Number 3 and 3a and Known As the Vintry is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. Wall. 5 related planning applications.
Walls Surrounding Garden of Number 3 and 3a and Known As the Vintry
- WRENN ID
- stark-pinnacle-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1971
- Type
- Wall
- Address
- Walls Surrounding Garden of Number 3 and 3a and Known As the Vintry, High Street, AL3 4ED
- OS grid reference
- TL 146 070
- Coordinates
- 51.75062, -0.34088
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are 18th-century brick walls enclosing the garden of numbers 3 and 3A, known as The Vintry. The walls face Waxhouse Gate, the north-east end of the Abbey, and Sumpter Yard, with a northern extension towards Waxhouse Gate. The walls are constructed of brick with roll-moulded coping stones, which are ramped up to follow the natural slope of the hill; they vary in height from approximately 8 to 13 feet on the exterior. At Waxhouse Gate, the lower section of the wall is of flint and may date to the late medieval period. Flat brick buttresses support the walls along this side, and a brick plinth is present. A round-arched opening is located in Waxhouse Gate. A recess featuring a four-centred head is found on the interior at the north-west corner.
Local climate
Walls Surrounding Garden of Number 3 and 3a and Known As the Vintry 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 — 9 transactions since 2010
- 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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