30, Spencer Street is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. House.

30, Spencer Street

WRENN ID
still-steeple-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 August 1971
Type
House
OS grid reference
TL 146 073
Coordinates
51.75309, -0.34014
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

30 Spencer Street is an early 19th-century building that stands two storeys high and features two windows on the first floor. It is constructed of red brick with a pattern of blue headers. The roof is low pitched and covered with slate, and it has eaves soffits. The first-floor windows and the left ground floor windows have gauged flat brick arches, while the door, which is slightly left of centre, has a round arch, all set in stucco lined reveals. The door features a reeded cornice head and a blocked fanlight above it. There is a small shop front on the right side of the building. This property is part of a group that includes Nos 8 to 14 even and Nos 18 to 30 even.

Local climate

30, Spencer Street 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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