48, Holywell Hill is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. House. 1 related planning application.
48, Holywell Hill
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-trefoil-thrush
- 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
- 48, Holywell Hill, AL1 1BX
- OS grid reference
- TL 146 069
- Coordinates
- 51.74939, -0.34082
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
48 Holywell Hill is a 17th century timber-framed house with an altered front. It has two storeys and an attic, featuring two windows. The building has a very high-pitched tiled roof with two dormers that contain casements with glazing bars. The first floor is tile-hung and has replaced sash windows with glazing bars set in slightly projecting box frames. The ground floor is made of brick and includes a similar window on the right and a later bay window on the left. A cornice hood on curved brackets is positioned above the central door. This property is part of a group that includes Nos 36 to 58 (even).
Local climate
48, 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 2004
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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