Kitchener's Meads is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. A C18 House. 14 related planning applications.
Kitchener's Meads
- WRENN ID
- scattered-barrel-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- Kitchener's Meads, 57-61, Fishpool Street, AL3 4RU
- OS grid reference
- TL 141 071
- Coordinates
- 51.75157, -0.34787
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kitchener's Meads is a range of late 18th-century buildings situated on the south side of Fishpool Street. The building is divided into a five-bay left-hand section and a two-bay right-hand section. The left-hand section has a high-pitched tiled roof, while the right-hand section has a lower-pitched tiled roof. A moulded wooden eaves cornice runs along the top of the building. The facades are red brick with a rendered plinth. The first-floor windows are sash windows, with one light or three lights, set in near-flush moulded frames. The ground-floor windows are three-light sashes in flush, box frames, each set beneath a gauged segmental brick arch. All windows have glazing bars, and their arrangement is irregular.
Number 57 has a door on the left side of the range. The doorcase features fluted, Doric pilasters, an entablature with a triglyph frieze and cornice hood. The door itself is made of six flat panels. At the rear of the building is a 17th-century section, which includes a first-floor room with a ceiling decorated with raised floral borders in geometric patterns. Number 59 has a door positioned under the third window from the left. The door is topped with a pediment that has modillions and dentils, and a similarly ornamented cornice, plain frieze, architrave, and flat pilasters. The door is composed of four fielded panels and two flat panels, set in a deep, plain reveal. Number 61 features a reproduction Georgian door and doorcase in the second bay from the right. A tall, hipped-roof rear extension from the 17th century rises above the roof of Number 57.
Numbers 51 to 61 (odd) are designated as a group.
Local climate
Kitchener's Meads 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 — 8 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 14 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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