Number 27, Including Adjoining Outbuilding at Rear is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1974. House, shop.

Number 27, Including Adjoining Outbuilding at Rear

WRENN ID
fallow-column-linden
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 August 1974
Type
House, shop
Address
Number 27, Including Adjoining Outbuilding at Rear, AL3 7LE
OS grid reference
TL 108 121
Coordinates
51.79744, -0.39399
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 27, including the adjoining outbuilding at the rear, is a house that has been converted into a shop. It dates from the 17th century and features a timber frame. The front facade, which is now painted, was updated in the early 19th century with brick. The northern elevation displays exposed framing, while the lower part of the 17th-century rear extension is still visible. The building is two storeys high and has two first-floor windows with moulded architraves and 20th-century casements. The eaves are decorated with dentilled brickwork. The modern ground floor has been adapted for shop use. The rear elevation includes a gabled stair projection on the southern side, which is connected by a wall to an early to mid-19th-century outbuilding, likely a stable. This outbuilding is constructed of dark red brick with light red dressings and has a slate roof. The northern side of the outbuilding features two blank roundels and a central niche.

Local climate

Number 27, Including Adjoining Outbuilding at Rear 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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