The Bell and Shears Public House is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1973. Public house. 4 related planning applications.
The Bell and Shears Public House
- WRENN ID
- last-tracery-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1973
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Bell and Shears Public House, 77, High Street, Redbourn, AL3 7LW
- OS grid reference
- TL 107 124
- Coordinates
- 51.79973, -0.39594
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bell and Shears Public House is a public house that dates back to the 17th century or earlier, featuring a timber frame with a late 19th-century red brick front. The building has a plain tile roof divided into two sections, with a narrower and taller part on the left that aligns with the roof line and cornice pattern of the adjacent properties, Nos 79 and 81. It stands two storeys high and is adorned with a wooden modillioned cornice across the front. The façade includes three segmental-headed sash windows and two segmental-headed doors. Prominently positioned near the right side of the ridge is a mid-17th-century red brick chimney stack, which has six square shafts arranged in an H plan. The interior features a two-bay lobby entrance on the right and a one-bay cross wing on the left.
Local climate
The Bell and Shears Public House 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 — 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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