The Crown and Anchor is a Grade II* listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. A C15 Public house. 4 related planning applications.
The Crown and Anchor
- WRENN ID
- hushed-screen-dawn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1971
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Crown and Anchor, 37, Holywell Hill, AL1 1HB
- OS grid reference
- TL 146 068
- Coordinates
- 51.74901, -0.34065
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Crown and Anchor is a 15th-century timber-framed building, now incorporated with No. 2 Sopwell Lane. Originally a single-window, two-storey structure, it has a high-pitched, hipped tiled roof. The first floor retains close-studded timbers and a jettied overhang. The ground floor has been brought forward and rebuilt in brick, featuring a reproduction Georgian shop window. The north return displays close studding and visible beam ends, continuing the design of No. 2 Sopwell Lane. A dragon beam at the corner is covered for protection and abuts heavy ground floor ceiling beams within. All timbers are oak. The original roof tiles have been replaced with modern machine tiles.
Local climate
The Crown and Anchor 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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