81 and 81a, Sopwell Lane is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. Villa. 3 related planning applications.
81 and 81a, Sopwell Lane
- WRENN ID
- seventh-moat-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1971
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- 81 and 81a, Sopwell Lane, AL1 1RN
- OS grid reference
- TL 148 068
- Coordinates
- 51.74828, -0.33764
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 18th-century villa, originally a two-story building with a basement, and originally featuring three windows. It is now divided into two flats, located at 81 and 81A Sopwell Lane. The roof is tiled and hipped on the left side. The exterior is red brick with a brick plinth. A central window on the first floor has been blocked. The windows have been replaced, and the door and ground-floor windows have new, gauged brick arches. A new front door has been installed. Numbers 81 to 89, which are the odd-numbered properties on Sopwell Lane, form a group.
Local climate
81 and 81a, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 12 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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