17, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. House. 1 related planning application.
17, High Street
- WRENN ID
- open-vault-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- 17, High Street, AL3 4EH
- OS grid reference
- TL 146 071
- Coordinates
- 51.75104, -0.3409
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
17 High Street is a 17th-century house that stands three storeys tall and features one window. The top storey is deeply overhanging and is supported by carved brackets on either side. The front is plastered, with the upper floors divided by raised decorative borders into a series of rectangular panels that resemble rustication. At the top of the gable end, there is a raised oval panel inscribed with the date "1665." The second floor has a wide, three-light window with mullions and a transom, while the first floor boasts a five-light canted bay window with casements. The ground floor has a modern shop front.
Local climate
17, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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