Front Screen Wall at Wheathampstead House is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Screen wall. 2 related planning applications.
Front Screen Wall at Wheathampstead House
- WRENN ID
- lone-flagstone-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Screen wall
- Address
- Front Screen Wall at Wheathampstead House, Codicote Road
- OS grid reference
- TL 178 143
- Coordinates
- 51.81561, -0.29231
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The front screen wall at Wheathampstead House is a mid to late 19th-century structure made of red brick with terracotta ornamentation. It stands about 5 metres high and stretches approximately 50 metres long. The wall features a continuous moulded coping and ornamental balustrading, all crafted from terracotta. It curves inward on both sides of an impressive gateway, which includes a double gate with an elliptical arch and single side gates with round arches. There is a fluted impost course above the gates. The terminal piers are topped with pedestals and vases. The original wooden gates each have six fielded panels. This wall serves as an important focal point at the north end of the town.
Local climate
Front Screen Wall at Wheathampstead House 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 — 2 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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