Town Hall Chambers is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. Town hall. 16 related planning applications.
Town Hall Chambers
- WRENN ID
- small-floor-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1950
- Type
- Town hall
- Address
- Town Hall Chambers, 31-37a, Market Place, AL3 5DL
- OS grid reference
- TL 147 072
- Coordinates
- 51.75232, -0.3394
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Town Hall Chambers is an early 18th-century building located on the west side of Market Place, comprising Nos. 31 to 37a. It is two storeys high with an attic and features six windows. The building has a high-pitched tiled roof that rises in the centre and includes two square-headed dormers. The walls are constructed of blue and red brick, with some areas panelled and others featuring a diaper pattern, topped with a brick parapet. The windows are renewed sash types set in near-flush, moulded frames, with gauged, flat red brick arches and red brick jambs. The ground floor has modern shop fronts, but the entrance to No. 35 is notable for its doorcase, which has an open pediment supported by columns in a modified Doric style, featuring a cornice with modillions and dentils. The doorcase also includes a fluted cornice head and a patterned fanlight above the door.
Local climate
Town Hall Chambers 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 16 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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