51-55, Fishpool Street is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. House. 5 related planning applications.
51-55, Fishpool Street
- WRENN ID
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- 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
- 51-55, Fishpool Street, AL3 4RU
- OS grid reference
- TL 141 071
- Coordinates
- 51.75151, -0.34748
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 51 to 55, Fishpool Street form a group of three buildings dating to the 17th century.
No. 51 is a two-storey, two-window building with a central door. It has a steep, tiled roof and a high, rendered plinth. The first-floor windows are 2- and 3-light casements with glazing bars in restored, flush frames. The ground floor has similar 4- and 3-light casements, the 3-light window on the right sharing a shallow hood with the recent door. No. 53 is the mirror image of No. 51, but the windows have not been restored; the first floor has a 2-light window on the left and a 3-light window on the right, both Yorkshire sashes in flush frames. The ground floor has 2-light horizontal sliding sashes. All windows have glazing bars. The roof has been renewed with machine tiles.
No. 55 is also 17th century, with an early 19th-century brick front. It is two storeys and two windows, with a steep roof renewed with machine tiles. The brickwork is red with random blue headers. The first floor windows are 2-light casements with glazing bars in flush frames. The ground floor windows consist of a 3-light and a 2-light casement with glazing bars in flush box frames, set under gauged, segmental brick arches. It has a replaced, round-headed door.
Local climate
51-55, Fishpool 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 — 4 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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