Waxhouse Gate is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. A C18 Gate.
Waxhouse Gate
- WRENN ID
- fallow-pedestal-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1950
- Type
- Gate
- Address
- Waxhouse Gate, High Street
- OS grid reference
- TL 146 071
- Coordinates
- 51.75104, -0.34074
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Waxhouse Gate is a historic structure located on the south side of High Street, dating back to its original purpose of providing access from the town to the Abbey. It remains as an open passage through the ground floor of No 15 High Street. At each end of the passage, there are 18th-century round stone archways, although the springing stones of earlier pointed arches can still be seen beneath these later additions.
Local climate
Waxhouse Gate 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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