The Thatched Cottage (On Corner of Lower Luton Road) is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. A 20th century Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
The Thatched Cottage (On Corner of Lower Luton Road)
- WRENN ID
- spare-marble-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- 20th century
- Address
- The Thatched Cottage (On Corner of Lower Luton Road), Crabtree Lane, Harpenden Town, AL5 5AF
- OS grid reference
- TL 148 149
- Coordinates
- 51.82158, -0.33442
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thatched Cottage, located at the corner of Lower Luton Road, is a 17th-century cottage that was modified around 1930 in a picturesque style. It features an exposed timber frame with red brick infill and has a deeply thatched roof that is half hipped at the ends. The cottage consists of three bays positioned at right angles to the road and is one storey high with attics. It has four 20th-century leaded casement windows and a central dormer that is recessed in the thatch. Additionally, there is a thatched porch hood and two thatched gabled dormers.
Local climate
The Thatched Cottage (On Corner of Lower Luton Road) 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 — 4 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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