Redbourn Dry Cleaning Services is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1973. House, shop. 1 related planning application.
Redbourn Dry Cleaning Services
- WRENN ID
- white-gargoyle-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1973
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Redbourn Dry Cleaning Services, 79 and 81, High Street, AL3 7LW
- OS grid reference
- TL 107 124
- Coordinates
- 51.79981, -0.39603
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Redbourn Dry Cleaning Services, located at Nos 79 and 81 on Redbourn High Street, is a house and shop dating from the early 18th century. The building features a timber frame with roughcast walls and has a plastered floor band and plinth on the right-hand side. It has a plain tile roof and stands two storeys tall. The deep wooden eaves cornice is adorned with square modillion brackets. On the first floor, there are three early 19th-century sash windows set in flush wood frames. The ground floor includes an 18th-century door frame on the right and a 20th-century double-fronted shop on the left, with a 19th-century sash window positioned between them. At the rear, there are twin 18th-century projections with hipped roofs.
Local climate
Redbourn Dry Cleaning Services 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 1996
- 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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