52, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1974. Shop. 1 related planning application.
52, High Street
- WRENN ID
- woven-latch-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1974
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 52, High Street, Redbourn, AL3 7LN
- OS grid reference
- TL 107 123
- Coordinates
- 51.79883, -0.3956
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a shop range, originally an inn, likely dating back to the medieval period. It features a timber frame construction. The front facade was rebuilt in the late 18th or early 19th century using painted brick, extending over the original structure of the adjacent building at the south end. The roof is covered with plain tiles. A parapet and band run above four segmental-headed windows on the first floor. The building has 20th-century glazing-bar casements and two 19th-century door openings, each with simple wooden frames and cut bracket hoods, though the shop windows are modern. A low carriageway, located at the north end of the building, reveals early exposed timbers.
Local climate
52, High Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 9 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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