Lys Eira is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. House.
Lys Eira
- WRENN ID
- shifting-bastion-evening
- 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
- Lys Eira, Birklands Lane
- OS grid reference
- TL 168 049
- Coordinates
- 51.73122, -0.30939
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lys Eira is a large 17th century timber-framed house that has undergone alterations. It has two storeys and features three windows on the front facing the road. The house has a high-pitched tiled roof, which includes a playful 19th century belfry and early 17th century diagonal chimneys. The first floor is cement rendered, while the ground floor is painted brick. A central projecting gable has a jettied first floor. The house has modern casement windows and the entrance front, located on the south return, is tile hung on the first floor. There are three modern oriel bay windows. The entrance features an early 19th century round arched door with panelled reveals, a cornice head, and a decorative fanlight, along with a modern gabled porch.
Local climate
Lys Eira 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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