68, Holywell Hill is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. House.
68, Holywell Hill
- WRENN ID
- ghost-latch-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1971
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- TL 146 068
- Coordinates
- 51.74872, -0.34127
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
68 Holywell Hill is an early 19th-century building that stands three storeys tall with an attic and features two windows. It is constructed of red brick and has a brick cornice. The roof is low-pitched and covered with slate, topped by a pediment that includes a central window. The attic and second-floor sash windows have gauged, flat brick arches and glazing bars. The first floor has French windows with margin lights that open onto a balcony, which is adorned with a wood-shingled, swept canopy and a trellis frieze supported by slender wood columns with a picketed rail. On the ground floor, to the left, there is a splay bay window with wood pilasters and an entablature. The entrance features a prostyle Doric porch with fluted columns and a fluted frieze, leading to a panelled door and jambs.
Local climate
68, 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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