St Stepen's House is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. House. 3 related planning applications.

St Stepen's House

WRENN ID
cold-steel-gorse
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 August 1971
Type
House
Address
St Stepen's House, 2, Watling Street, AL1 2PT
OS grid reference
TL 140 060
Coordinates
51.7416, -0.34911
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Stephen's House is an earlier 18th-century building located on Watling Street. It originally comprised two storeys and an attic, with a five-window facade, and includes a two-storey, single-window extension set back on the right. The building is constructed of red brick and features a parapet. It has a high-pitched, hipped tiled roof with dormers. The sash windows are set within flush, box frames, with gauged brick arches above. A later 18th-century doorcase is present, featuring attached Tuscan columns supporting an open pediment with a modillion cornice. The round-arched, panelled reveal contains a six-panel door with a cornice head, which continues the cornice of the reveal and echoes the columns. A decorative fanlight is above the door.

Local climate

St Stepen's House 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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  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 2000
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  • Radon risk assessment
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