Riverside Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Riverside Cottage
- WRENN ID
- slow-slate-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Riverside Cottage, Waterside, London Colney
- OS grid reference
- TL 182 036
- Coordinates
- 51.71916, -0.28925
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Riverside Cottage is a cottage that was built as an outbuilding to Colne Cottage in the early to mid-19th century. It is constructed of painted brick and features a machine tile roof. The cottage is two storeys high and has two segmental-headed glazing bar casements. There is a brick porch added to the right front, which dates from around 1975. A central square red brick chimney stack is also present. This building is included for its group value with Colne Cottage.
Local climate
Riverside Cottage 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- No related consent applications matched
- 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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