13-17, Holywell Hill is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. A C16 House. 11 related planning applications.
13-17, Holywell Hill
- WRENN ID
- woven-tower-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- 13-17, Holywell Hill, AL1 1EZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 146 070
- Coordinates
- 51.7501, -0.33996
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a row of four 16th-century houses, refaced around 1700, located at numbers 13 to 17 Holywell Hill. They originally included numbers 19 and 21, which were formerly known as the "Saracen's Head." Each house is two storeys high and has two windows. The roofs are steeply pitched and tiled, with deep eaves cornices decorated with modillions. The frontages are all plastered.
Number 13 has plain reveals to its first-floor sash windows, and a later 19th-century shop front on the ground floor. Number 15 features first-floor sash windows with glazing bars in narrow, moulded frames, alongside small oriel shop windows on brackets flanking the front door. Number 17 has first-floor sash windows with glazing bars set in near-flush, moulded frames. The ground floors of all three houses are unified by a series of shop fronts dating from the earlier 19th century, designed to resemble earlier styles. These include a dentilled cornice, triglyphs in the fascia, Tuscan pilasters on the sides, and attached columns in the center. A panelled soffit is present at the entrance to number 17.
The properties have gabled rear extensions suggesting a 17th-century appearance. Numbers 1 to 25 (odd) are considered to be a group.
Local climate
13-17, Holywell Hill 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 11 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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