Caps Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. House.
Caps Cottage
- WRENN ID
- carved-fireplace-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Caps Cottage, House Lane, Sandridge
- OS grid reference
- TL 183 099
- Coordinates
- 51.77554, -0.28548
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cap's Cottage is a house dating from the mid-17th century. It was recased and extended at both ends in the late 18th or early 19th century to create three cottages, but is now a single residence. The late 19th-century roughcast casing covers the structure, which has two storeys. The building features four 2-light glazing bar casements, with two located in the center and one in each hipped wing. There is a French window in the center, which was formerly a door, along with doors at both ends. The three door openings are topped with bracketed tiled hoods. The eaves are dentilled brick all around. The central roof is slightly taller and has a dark red brick chimney stack on the left, which has two joined shafts and a corbelled top.
Local climate
Caps 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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