3, Branch Road is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
3, Branch Road
- WRENN ID
- final-pavement-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1971
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 3, Branch Road, AL3 4ST
- OS grid reference
- TL 139 075
- Coordinates
- 51.75528, -0.35084
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 3 Branch Road is an 1831 cottage. It is two storeys high and has two windows. The roof is low-pitched and covered with slate. The exterior is predominantly red brick, with the upper and lower sections of the windows being raised brick panels, separated by recessed plaster panels. Wide brick quoins define the corners, with vertical areas of plaster between the quoins and panels, and also centrally. The windows are 3-light casement windows set in near-flush box frames, each with a segmental brick arch. A similar brick arch is above the doorway on the side return.
Local climate
3, Branch Road 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 — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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