16 and 18, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. Building.
16 and 18, High Street
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-sentry-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1971
- Type
- Building
- OS grid reference
- TL 146 071
- Coordinates
- 51.75116, -0.34034
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
16 and 18 High Street is an early 19th-century building made of yellow brick, standing three storeys tall with three windows. It features a low-pitched, hipped slate roof with a deep eaves soffit. The sash windows, which have glazing bars (though some have been replaced), are topped with gauged, flat brick arches. The ground floor has modern shops. A rounded angle on the one-window return includes a shallow, recessed panel that extends through the two upper storeys, and this panel along with the return is finished in stucco. Nos 14 to 18 (even) form a group, as do Nos 18 and Nos 1, 3, 2, and 4 Market Place.
Local climate
16 and 18, High 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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