Amwell Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.

Amwell Cottage

WRENN ID
heavy-keystone-tarn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Amwell Cottage, Amwell Lane, Wheathampstead, AL4 8EA
OS grid reference
TL 169 132
Coordinates
51.80584, -0.30545
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Amwell Cottage is a house that was originally built as a cottage range in the late 17th century or early 18th century. The front is made of 18th-century red brick. There is a left extension from around 1930 that incorporates a small 18th-century barn, and a further extension added to the rear left around 1970, creating an L-shaped plan. The roof is covered with plain tiles and the building has one to two storeys. The long frontage facing the road features four box dormer windows, with the two in the center having 19th-century cast iron casements. On the ground floor, there are 20th-century leaded and glazing-bar casements. The left side of the cottage is clad in weatherboarding, and there are two 18th-century ridge chimney stacks. The roof structure includes clasped purlins.

Local climate

Amwell Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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 1999
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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