The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. House.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lost-lime-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Cottage, Punch Bowl Lane, Redbourn
- OS grid reference
- TL 101 091
- Coordinates
- 51.77016, -0.40531
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century, with an extension added towards the road in the late 18th or early 19th century. It features a timber frame and is encased in 17th century red brick that has been painted white. The building has a plain tile roof and stands two storeys high. There are four casement windows, with the two on the left set in 17th century frames. The rear elevation includes a large external stack with a broad base, and there are inglenooks inside. The roof also has a catslide design.
Local climate
The Old 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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