Whip Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. House/inn. 4 related planning applications.
Whip Cottage
- WRENN ID
- shifting-tracery-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House/inn
- Address
- Whip Cottage, 447, Luton Road, Harpenden Rural, AL5 3QE
- OS grid reference
- TL 113 161
- Coordinates
- 51.83259, -0.38581
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whip Cottage is a house, originally built as an inn in the later 18th century, with a suggested date of 1780. The ground floor is constructed of chequered red brick, while the upper floor was rebuilt in the early 19th century using plain red brick. The roof is covered with machine tiles. A cellar is located beneath the right-hand side of the building. There are two 3-light windows with glazing bars. A central 19th-century door is set within a moulded frame. The ground-floor windows have gauged brick lintels, and the windows have 19th-century wooden shutters. The upper floor has a blank central panel. Two 18th-century chimney stacks are present; the left one is external, and the right one is now incorporated into a recent extension. The interior features 18th-century exposed studwork and chamfered floor beams with run-out stops. A 19th-century extension is located at the rear of the property.
Local climate
Whip Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2005
- 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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