Smallford Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1975. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Smallford Cottage
- WRENN ID
- slow-grate-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 May 1975
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Smallford Cottage, Colney Heath Lane, AL4 0TP
- OS grid reference
- TL 190 066
- Coordinates
- 51.74562, -0.27732
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Smallford Cottage is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It features elements from the mid-17th century and possibly has an earlier core. The structure is timber-framed and has 20th-century weatherboarding and casement windows. The roof is steeply pitched and covered with plain tiles, featuring three gabled dormers. The building has one storey and attics, with the ground floor showcasing three three-light casements. There are two 20th-century doors, with the right door located beneath a large ridge chimney stack that has four joined shafts arranged in a cross plan. To the right, there is a single-storey extension from the 18th to 19th century, and a further 20th-century extension beyond that. Inside, there is a staircase attached to the chimney stack.
Local climate
Smallford 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 — 1 transaction since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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