50, Holywell Hill is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. House. 7 related planning applications.
50, Holywell Hill
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-passage-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- 50, Holywell Hill, AL1 1BX
- OS grid reference
- TL 146 069
- Coordinates
- 51.74933, -0.34084
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 50 on Holywell Hill is a 17th century or earlier timber-framed house that features a later front. The building has two storeys and an attic, with three windows. It boasts a very high-pitched tiled roof that includes two dormers with casements that have glazing bars. The first floor is roughcast and has 18th century sash windows with glazing bars set in slightly projecting box frames. The ground floor, made of painted brick, has modern doors and windows. There is also some weatherboarding visible on the first floor rear. This property is part of a group that includes Nos 36 to 58 (even).
Local climate
50, Holywell Hill sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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 — 2 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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