The Cedars is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1954. House. 4 related planning applications.

The Cedars

WRENN ID
hollow-landing-vale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 January 1954
Type
House
Address
The Cedars, 16, Southdown Road, Harpenden Town, AL5 1PD
OS grid reference
TL 136 139
Coordinates
51.81283, -0.3527
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cedars is a late 18th or early 19th century house and garage, originally a coach house serving Welcombe, now part of the Moat House Hotel. It is constructed of red brick with plain tile roofs. The house is a narrow, two-story block with a gable end and dentilled brick eaves. There are two segmental-headed flush sash windows with 19th-century shutters. The front door and hood are from around 1970. A single-story garage, slightly later in date, adjoins the left side and also features dentilled eaves and two segmental-headed wide openings.

Local climate

The Cedars 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
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  • 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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