Holly Bush Public House is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1981. Public house. 1 related planning application.
Holly Bush Public House
- WRENN ID
- carved-cloister-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1981
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- Holly Bush Public House, Ragged Hall Lane, St. Michael, AL2 3NN
- OS grid reference
- TL 116 052
- Coordinates
- 51.73481, -0.38411
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holly Bush Public House is a 17th-century public house with a timber frame and roughcast exterior painted white. It features a plain tile roof with two gabled dormers built off the wall plate and is one and a half storeys high. There is a massive brick external stack on the west gable and a narrow early 19th-century plastered extension to the east, which has a slate roof. The main block includes a 10/10-pane sash window to the left of the door and a casement window to the right, along with casement dormers. A 20th-century porch has been added. Inside, the building has two bays and a lateral stair located in an unheated bay at the rear, with exposed chamfered ceiling beams. The stair enclosure is clad in broad, horizontal planks, featuring plank doors leading to the staircase and a cellar underneath. There is also a 20th-century rear extension on the west side.
Local climate
Holly Bush Public House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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