Pre Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Hotel. 2 related planning applications.
Pre Hotel
- WRENN ID
- spare-window-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Pre Hotel, Redbourn Road (A5), St. Michael, AL3 6JZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 129 082
- Coordinates
- 51.76162, -0.36416
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Pre Hotel is a building that was originally constructed as a country house around 1830-1840. It is made of stuccoed and painted brick and features a low pitched slate roof. The building has a bracketed eaves cornice with a moulded fascia band and stands two storeys high, with a floor band. The main elevation faces the garden and includes eight recessed sash windows; the center and right-hand windows are triple hung and set in shallow projecting bays. There is a continuous ground floor verandah with a coved iron roof supported by slender palmette columns, and the outer and central bays have thin iron arches with a cut metal valence. The road elevation displays several projections, including a square porch with Doric pilasters and a pediment, along with a five-window service block on the right side. Inside, the ground floor rooms facing the garden are well-proportioned, with one room featuring an enriched cornice.
Local climate
Pre Hotel 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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