Dolittle Mill House is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. House, former mill house. 5 related planning applications.
Dolittle Mill House
- WRENN ID
- twisted-bailey-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House, former mill house
- Address
- Dolittle Mill House, St Albans Road, Redbourn, AL3 7AA
- OS grid reference
- TL 113 111
- Coordinates
- 51.78798, -0.38746
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dolittle Mill House is a house that was formerly a mill house, dating from the 17th century. It features a timber frame and has a colour washed pilaster front with early to mid-19th century details. The house has a gable end facing the road and is two storeys high. It has a plain tile roof with a wooden eaves soffit. On the first floor, there are three sash windows with flush wood frames. The door on the left has six reeded panels and is sheltered by an open pedimented porch supported by one slender fluted column. There are canted sash bay windows on either side of the door. A large 17th century red brick chimney stack, which has two square shafts and an arris, is located above the door.
Local climate
Dolittle Mill House 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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