The White Lion Public House is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. Public house. 6 related planning applications.
The White Lion Public House
- WRENN ID
- kindled-banister-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1971
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The White Lion Public House, 91, Sopwell Lane, AL1 1RN
- OS grid reference
- TL 148 067
- Coordinates
- 51.74811, -0.33724
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The White Lion Public House is a timber-framed building, reputed to date from 1594. It consists of two parts and features a fairly high pitched, tiled roof. The structure has two storeys and three windows, with two located in the right-hand section, which has a weatherboarded end wall. The first floor is slightly jettied, and the building has been refaced in plaster on the first floor and brick on the ground floor. The door and windows have been renewed. Inside, there are several exposed beams.
Local climate
The White Lion Public House 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 — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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