Owens Corner is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. House.
Owens Corner
- WRENN ID
- sheer-pier-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Owens Corner, Lamer Lane, Wheathampstead
- OS grid reference
- TL 177 156
- Coordinates
- 51.82712, -0.29332
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Owens Corner is a house dating from around 1840, featuring a long frontage with the left side clad in white weatherboarding and the right side constructed of red brick. The building has a slate roof and stands two storeys tall. On the right side, there are canted sash bay windows positioned on either side of the door, which is framed by a contemporary panelled design with diamond paterae and topped by a flat hood supported on shaped brackets. The right window has been restored, while the left window retains its original wood surrounds. The left side of the house has five windows, which include a mix of sash and fixed panes. There is a small gable on the right side that features a square bracketed oriel. The left end of the house has a tripartite group of windows, with the upper floor showcasing a central canted oriel. A late 19th-century rear extension is also present. The building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Owens Corner 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1998
- No related consent applications matched
- 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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