Phoenix Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. A Late 18th century Residential.
Phoenix Cottage
- WRENN ID
- half-cloister-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1971
- Type
- Residential
- Period
- Late 18th century
- Address
- Phoenix Cottage, 72, Holywell Hill
- OS grid reference
- TL 145 068
- Coordinates
- 51.74836, -0.34156
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Phoenix Cottage is a late 18th-century building located on Holywell Hill. It is constructed of red brick featuring a pattern of blue headers and has a moderately high-pitched tiled roof. The left section of the cottage is two storeys tall and has two windows; the left windows are casements with glazing bars set in near-flush box frames, while the right windows are sashes with glazing bars in similar frames. The wood doorcase is topped with a plain pediment and flanked by flat pilasters, leading to a door with four fielded panels and panelled reveals. There are wrought iron handrails and a scraper at the entrance. The right section of the cottage is also two storeys but has only one window; this section features a sash window with replaced glazing bars in a near-flush box frame on the first floor, while the ground floor has been altered to include a modern bay window.
Local climate
Phoenix Cottage 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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