Garden Wallling at Helmets Limited Registered Office and Moat Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Garden wall. 7 related planning applications.
Garden Wallling at Helmets Limited Registered Office and Moat Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-jamb-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Garden wall
- Address
- Garden Wallling at Helmets Limited Registered Office and Moat Cottage, High Street, Wheathampstead, AL4 8QT
- OS grid reference
- TL 176 140
- Coordinates
- 51.81308, -0.29501
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden walling at Helmets Limited Registered Office and Moat Cottage dates from the early 19th century. It is constructed of red brick and features coping. The wall is approximately 3 metres high on the north, east, and west sides, and 2 metres high on the south side. The east and west sides display a rare crinkle-crankle plan. The north side has flat buttresses, while the south side features a heavy plinth. There are arched gateways flanked by buttresses and topped with simple segmental pediments at the centre of the east and west sides. The wall is interrupted on the southeast side by an entrance to Moat Cottage.
Local climate
Garden Wallling at Helmets Limited Registered Office and Moat Cottage 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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