The Black Boy Public House is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Public house. 1 related planning application.
The Black Boy Public House
- WRENN ID
- bitter-paling-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Black Boy Public House, Old Watford Road, St. Stephen, AL2 3RU
- OS grid reference
- TL 121 024
- Coordinates
- 51.70934, -0.37795
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Black Boy Public House is a public house dating from the late 17th century, featuring a timber frame with red brick casing from the 17th and 19th centuries. It has plain tile roofs and stands two storeys high. The early range has a gable end positioned in the centre, with a clasped purlin roof visible in the roughcast front gable. To the left, there is a two-storey wing from the 17th to 18th century with a double-pile roof and one sash window on its front. The central block has a 19th-century door and a segmental-headed sash window. At the rear, there is a lower early 19th-century block with two glazing bar casements. An external stack is located at the junction of the front block. Inside, the building features roll-moulded floor beams and joists in the centre bay.
Local climate
The Black Boy Public House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
- 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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