Hill End Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Hill End Cottages

WRENN ID
roaming-jade-sunrise
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
Hill End Cottages, 1 and 2, Beechtree Lane, St. Michael, AL3 6AR
OS grid reference
TL 108 065
Coordinates
51.74637, -0.39539
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hill End Cottages are a pair of cottages built in the mid to late 17th century, designed in a T plan with a lobby-entrance range at the front. The cottages feature an exposed timber frame and have a plain tile roof. A prominent large central chimney stack made of red brick, with four joined shafts arranged in a cross plan, is a notable feature. The front range consists of two and a half bays and includes three sash windows, with three lights on the outside and two lights in the middle. There are also a pair of 20th-century doors. At the rear, there is a projection that has a similar chimney stack from the 19th or 20th century.

Local climate

Hill End Cottages 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% 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 2017
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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