St Leonard's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1987. A Early Modern House. 2 related planning applications.
St Leonard's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- grim-steeple-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1987
- Type
- House
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- St Leonard's Cottage, 16, Trowley Hill Road, Flamstead, AL3 8EE
- OS grid reference
- TL 078 145
- Coordinates
- 51.81904, -0.43706
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St. Leonard's Cottage is an early 18th-century house located on Trowley Hill Road in Flamstead. The building features red brick with black headers arranged in Flemish bond, complemented by red dressings and a wooden moulded eaves cornice. It has a very steep old red tile roof and a low parallel rear wing made of red brick with a slate roof. The house is two stories tall and faces east, with two windows on each floor and a central entrance. The windows are flush box sashes, with 6/6 panes on the ground floor and 8/8 panes on the first floor, all set beneath wooden lintels. The doorway is topped with a pointed hood supported by shaped scrolled brackets.
Local climate
St Leonard's Cottage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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