26, Market Place is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. Building. 3 related planning applications.
26, Market Place
- WRENN ID
- pale-pediment-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1971
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 26, Market Place, AL3 5DG
- OS grid reference
- TL 147 072
- Coordinates
- 51.75184, -0.33952
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
26 Market Place is a building with an early 18th-century facade that dates back to the 17th century. It has three storeys and three windows, constructed of red brick with a parapet in front of a high-pitched, hipped, tiled roof. The windows feature gauged, segmental brick arches and box frames, with renewed sashes. The ground floor has a 19th-century shop front that includes fluted pilasters and an overhanging fascia with a panelled soffit, supported by cast iron columns that have a quasi-Corinthian design.
Local climate
26, Market Place 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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