Ackroyds Bakery is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1971. Bakery, house. 6 related planning applications.
Ackroyds Bakery
- WRENN ID
- dusted-keystone-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1971
- Type
- Bakery, house
- Address
- Ackroyds Bakery, 3, Station Road, Wheathampstead, AL4 8BU
- OS grid reference
- TL 177 142
- Coordinates
- 51.81416, -0.29332
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ackroyds Bakery is a baker's premises and house, likely dating from the 16th century. It features a timber frame and combed pargetting, topped with a plain tile roof. The building has two storeys and three gable ends facing the street, with the central gable being taller and a later addition. The outer gables have first-floor three-light glazing bar casements, which are probably from the early 19th century, while the ground floors have modern windows set in 19th-century frames. There is a 19th-century box shop window in the center, and a gabled extension at the rear that dates from the 17th or 18th century.
Local climate
Ackroyds Bakery 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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