The Old Bell Public House is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Public house. 3 related planning applications.
The Old Bell Public House
- WRENN ID
- turning-lime-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Old Bell Public House, Luton Road, Harpenden Town, AL5 3BN
- OS grid reference
- TL 125 152
- Coordinates
- 51.82471, -0.3682
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Bell Public House is a building that dates from the late 17th century and features a timber frame. It was altered in the early 19th century and has large additions from the mid to late 20th century. The original part of the building has stuccoed walls and a steep-pitched machine tile roof. It is two storeys high with attics and has two first-floor flush sash windows with 10/10 panes. There is a central ridge chimney stack with four red brick square shafts and projecting upper courses. The south gable end has a small attic casement. The front extension has a pentice roof, and some original chamfered beams are exposed inside. There is also a late 19th-century wing at the rear to the north, which may include an earlier wing.
Local climate
The Old Bell Public House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2014
- 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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