Darby's Stores and Number 25 is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. A C17 House, shop. 2 related planning applications.

Darby's Stores and Number 25

WRENN ID
calm-gateway-candle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Type
House, shop
Address
Darby's Stores and Number 25, Darbys Stores and Number 25, High Street, Sandridge, AL4 9DD
OS grid reference
TL 169 104
Coordinates
51.78091, -0.30553
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Darby's Stores and Number 25 is a house and shop located on the west side of High Street in Sandridge. The shop dates from the late 17th century and features a timber frame construction. The ground floor is plastered, while the upper floor is roughcast. The building has a plain tile gable end roof and consists of two storeys. There are three 20th-century wood casement windows that are evenly spaced on the upper floor. The ground floor includes an early 20th-century double fronted shop with a plain fascia band, along with a door and window to the right. At each end of the roof, there are red brick chimney stacks from the late 17th century, each with two joined shafts. Inside, there are exposed ceiling beams. The house to the north is from the mid-19th century, but it may have an earlier core. It also has a timber frame, a narrow frontage, a recessed door, and a segmental headed glazing bar casement window, and is two storeys high.

Local climate

Darby's Stores and Number 25 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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