2, Luton Road is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1981. House.
2, Luton Road
- WRENN ID
- seventh-turret-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- 2, Luton Road, Harpenden Town
- OS grid reference
- TL 132 145
- Coordinates
- 51.8185, -0.35785
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 2 Luton Road is a house that likely dates from the late 17th century. It has a timber frame with 17th and 18th century red brick casing and infill, topped with a plain tile roof. The house features an internal chimney stack on the north gable end and stands two storeys tall with three bays of box framing. On the first floor, there are two flush Yorkshire casements, while the ground floor has two casements, one of which is next to the door and includes three cast iron lights. The entrance is marked by a plank door on the right, which is sheltered by a simple gabled hood. At the rear on the south side, there is a single-storey gabled extension, also timber framed. Inside, the house boasts an upper-cruck roof construction, which is unique in the county, along with straight roof braces.
Local climate
2, Luton Road 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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