Whippletrees is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.

Whippletrees

WRENN ID
waning-buttress-sunrise
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Whippletrees, Lamer Lane, Wheathampstead, AL4 8RS
OS grid reference
TL 176 156
Coordinates
51.82743, -0.29426
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Whippletrees is a house built around 1840, constructed of red brick. It features a plain tile gable end roof with an internal stuccoed stack on the left end. The building has two storeys and includes two original flush sash windows with moulded frames and gauged brick lintels. The entrance has a moulded panel door set in a modern frame.

Local climate

Whippletrees 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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