Front Wall, Railings and North Boundary Wall to the Priory is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Boundary wall.

Front Wall, Railings and North Boundary Wall to the Priory

WRENN ID
keen-baluster-heath
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Type
Boundary wall
Address
Front Wall, Railings and North Boundary Wall to the Priory, High Street, Redbourn
OS grid reference
TL 107 122
Coordinates
51.79787, -0.39601
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The front wall, railings, and north boundary wall to the Priory in Redbourn date from the early 18th century, with later additions from the 18th century and some 17th-century brick at the rear. The structure includes boundary walls to adjacent properties, Redlands and the Bungalow at Monks Close, as well as the north boundary wall to the Priory, known as The Ruins. The wall is constructed of dark red brick, partly in a chequered pattern, and features a low front wall topped with stone coping. The 19th-century cast iron railings have decorative leaf spikes. The northern section of the wall runs approximately 150 meters along the south side of The Ruins and reaches a height of about 3 meters near the road, with regularly spaced flat buttresses and a square pier at the western end. The wall continues along the western side for about 50 meters, ending in another square pier at the southern end.

Local climate

Front Wall, Railings and North Boundary Wall to the Priory 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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