18-20, George Street is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. A C16 Timber-framed house. 1 related planning application.
18-20, George Street
- WRENN ID
- eternal-railing-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1950
- Type
- Timber-framed house
- Address
- 18-20, George Street, AL3 4ES
- OS grid reference
- TL 145 071
- Coordinates
- 51.75172, -0.34267
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 18 to 20 George Street comprise three adjoining properties dating to the early 16th century, originally timber-framed buildings.
No. 18 is a timber-framed house with two storeys and one window. The first floor overhangs and has a mock-studding finish covered with roughcast. It features an 18th-century sash window with glazing bars set in a flush box frame. A plaque indicates the site was formerly a guest house of the Abbey, later becoming the inn "Le Tabard" in 1545 and the "Antelope" in 1610. The ground floor has an 1800 shop front.
Nos. 19 and 20 form a larger early 16th-century timber-framed building with two storeys and an attic, featuring three windows. The first floor overhangs and is rendered with cement. The roof is steeply pitched and tiled, with one square and one gabled dormer window. It has 18th-century windows which now have later glazing, set in slightly projecting box frames. The ground floor features early 19th-century shop fronts.
Nos. 18 to 28 George Street form a group.
Local climate
18-20, George Street 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 — 5 transactions since 2006
- 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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