War Memorial Plaque attached to 80 and 82 Sopwell Lane is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 June 2015. War memorial plaque. 4 related planning applications.
War Memorial Plaque attached to 80 and 82 Sopwell Lane
- WRENN ID
- grey-pinnacle-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 June 2015
- Type
- War memorial plaque
- Address
- War Memorial Plaque attached to 80 and 82 Sopwell Lane, AL1 1RW
- OS grid reference
- TL 148 068
- Coordinates
- 51.7482, -0.33782
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The war memorial plaque was unveiled in 1920 by the Bishop of St Albans, Dr Michael Furse. It is a stone memorial comprising a rectangular tablet, supported by two small brackets, above which is a smaller rectangular tablet holding a cross with a shallow hood. The memorial is set into the front wall of the dwellings at 80 and 82 Sopwell Lane. The larger tablet is inscribed with the names of 15 individuals who lost their lives in the First World War. The inscription reads: ‘FOR REMEMBERANCE/ 1914-1918/JAMES BAKER RALPH HAYLES/ WILLIAM BEASLEY GEORGE HALSEY/ BERT EPHGRAVE CHARLES JAYCLEAU/ JOHN EPHGRAVE BERTRAM PARLES/ CHARLES FOUTAIN PERCY POPE/ HARRY CATELEY NOAH SWAIN/ JESSE CATELEY HERBERT WRIGHT/ WILLIAM WALDOCK/ RIP’. Note that the dwellings at 80 and 82 Sopwell Lane themselves are not considered to be of special architectural or historic interest.
Local climate
War Memorial Plaque attached to 80 and 82 Sopwell Lane sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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