Thatch End and Mansdale is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1974. A Post-Medieval Residential. 5 related planning applications.
Thatch End and Mansdale
- WRENN ID
- graven-tallow-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1974
- Type
- Residential
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- Thatch End and Mansdale, Ben Austins and Flamsteadbury Lane, Redbourn, AL3 7DF
- OS grid reference
- TL 100 118
- Coordinates
- 51.79473, -0.40575
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thatch End and Mansdale is a terrace of two thatched houses, originally several cottages, dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century. The buildings have a timber frame with plastered walls. The thatched roof is divided into three sections, including a short addition from the 19th or 20th century at the eastern end of Mansdale. The houses are one and a half storeys tall and feature five regularly spaced wide eaves dormer windows. Both houses have square red brick central chimney stacks. Thatch End includes two box thatched bay windows, while Mansdale has four 2-light ground floor casements. All windows are recent leaded casements.
Local climate
Thatch End and Mansdale sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 3 transactions since 1996
- 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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