Number 1 Thatched Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. House. 3 related planning applications.
Number 1 Thatched Cottages
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-remnant-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Number 1 Thatched Cottages, Hatching Green, Harpenden Town, AL5 2JS
- OS grid reference
- TL 133 129
- Coordinates
- 51.8041, -0.35798
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 1 Thatched Cottages is a late 17th or early 18th century house. It is timber-framed and has a red brick casing, with the left end restored or extended in the 20th century. The gable end is plastered and features an external chimney stack. The roof is thatched, with two large thatched gabled dormers. There are three casement windows; the two on the right have original cambered heads. One door survives from the original pair of cottages.
Local climate
Number 1 Thatched Cottages 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 — 2 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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