178, London Road is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1977. House. 1 related planning application.
178, London Road
- WRENN ID
- roaming-dormer-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 January 1977
- Type
- House
- Address
- 178, London Road, AL1 1PL
- OS grid reference
- TL 152 067
- Coordinates
- 51.74736, -0.33144
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 178 on London Road is an early 19th-century building, likely constructed between 1820 and 1830. It is two storeys high and finished in stucco. The façade features three sash windows with glazing bars and margional glazing. Each bay of the house is accentuated by full-height plain pilasters that extend into a plain frieze. A central porch with columns adds to the entrance. The roof is flat with a slight pitch, covered in slate and hipped on both sides. To the right, there is a later two-storey extension that includes one sash window and a large central stucco bay with modern windows, a cornice, and a blocking course, which may be linked to the work of George Smith.
Local climate
178, London Road sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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