Holly Bush Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1981. House. 1 related planning application.
Holly Bush Cottage
- WRENN ID
- young-fireplace-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 1981
- Type
- House
- Address
- Holly Bush Cottage, Ragged Hall Lane, St. Michael, AL2 3NN
- OS grid reference
- TL 116 052
- Coordinates
- 51.73481, -0.38456
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holly Bush Cottage is a house dating from the early to mid-17th century. It features an exposed timber frame, with the ground floor constructed of painted brick, plaster, and weatherboarding. The roof is covered with plain tiles and has a dark red brick chimney stack with four square flues located near the gable end. The building may have originally included another bay facing the road. It is two storeys high, with the upper floor on the east side having two small 19th-century glazing bar casements, while the ground floor contains a door and twin casements. The rear elevation also has a door and twin casement. Inside, there is a staircase attached to the stack.
Local climate
Holly Bush 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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