Royal Oak Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. House. 3 related planning applications.
Royal Oak Cottage
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Royal Oak Cottage, 173, Lower Luton Road, Wheathampstead, AL4 8HQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 167 144
- Coordinates
- 51.81685, -0.30775
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Royal Oak Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century. It features a timber frame with a painted 18th-century brick front and stands two storeys high. The front has three 20th-century glazing-bar casements in their original openings and two segmental-headed doors. There is a 20th-century extension on the south side. Inside, the cottage has two bays of exposed framing, and there is a lean-to rear extension that creates a catslide roof.
Local climate
Royal Oak Cottage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
- 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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