56, Holywell Hill is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. Building. 1 related planning application.
56, Holywell Hill
- WRENN ID
- pale-cobble-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1971
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 56, Holywell Hill, AL1 1BX
- OS grid reference
- TL 146 069
- Coordinates
- 51.74914, -0.34098
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
56 Holywell Hill is a building with an early 19th century front that dates back to around 1600. It is two storeys high and has three windows, constructed from red brick and topped with a very high pitched, tiled roof. The sash windows feature gauged, flat brick arches and gothick glazing bars, with the centre window on the first floor being blocked. The doorcase is adorned with an open pediment above an order, flanked by fluted and reeded pilasters. The door itself has a reeded cornice head and a decorative fanlight. This building is part of a group that includes Nos 36 to 58 (even).
Local climate
56, 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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