32a, Holywell Hill is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. Commercial. 4 related planning applications.
32a, Holywell Hill
- WRENN ID
- crooked-paling-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1971
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 32a, Holywell Hill, AL1 1BZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 146 070
- Coordinates
- 51.75, -0.34059
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
32A Holywell Hill is an early 18th-century building that stands three storeys high and features two windows. It is constructed of red and blue brick, with red brick dressings. The building has a high-pitched, tiled roof with an eaves soffit. The windows on the upper floors are 19th-century replacements, designed as sash windows set in near-flush, moulded frames beneath gauged brick arches. There is a brick band at the second floor level, and the ground floor has a later 19th-century shop front. This building, along with No 34, forms a group.
Local climate
32a, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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