Royal British Legion Branch Club Headquarters is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 July 1951. Clubhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Royal British Legion Branch Club Headquarters

WRENN ID
haunted-pediment-thrush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 July 1951
Type
Clubhouse
Address
Royal British Legion Branch Club Headquarters, Bennets, 21, Leyton Road, Harpenden Town, AL5 2HU
OS grid reference
TL 134 140
Coordinates
51.81378, -0.35587
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a house, now serving as the Royal British Legion Branch Club Headquarters. The main part of the building dates from the 17th century, with significant alterations made in the early to mid-19th century and a later rear extension. The main range is timber-framed and has been covered with a stucco finish. It has a plain tile roof. The front of the house is symmetrical, featuring five windows. It is two storeys high with attics. A two-storey projecting gabled porch is centrally located. There are gabled cross wings at each end, each with a lean-to projection. The porch has an early 19th-century doorcase featuring Tuscan pilasters and an entablature. Single sash windows are positioned on either side of the porch; the ground floors of the wings have triple-hung sashes. The central three windows on the first floor are two-light Yorkshire casements. The first floors of the wings have single sashes. The left-hand attic gable contains a 17th or 18th-century two-light casement with leaded glass, while the right-hand gable has a Yorkshire casement. The rear wing is stuccoed and has a slate roof, with five replacement windows.

Local climate

Royal British Legion Branch Club Headquarters 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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