Torrington House is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. House. 4 related planning applications.
Torrington House
- WRENN ID
- twisted-mullion-tide
- 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
- Torrington House, 47, Holywell Hill, AL1 1HD
- OS grid reference
- TL 146 068
- Coordinates
- 51.74835, -0.34088
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Torrington House is a mid-19th century red brick house located on Holywell Hill. It stands three storeys tall and features three windows, with stone dressings and a concealed roof behind a balustraded parapet that sits above a deep, bracketed stone cornice. The sash windows are topped with gauged, shallow segmental arches, except for the left-hand windows on the first and ground floors, which are three-light canted bays adorned with stone pilasters and an entablature on each floor, also topped with a balustraded parapet. The entrance is marked by a Doric porch that includes a frieze of triglyphs and bucrania, with a balustraded parapet above.
Local climate
Torrington House 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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