Holly Bush Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. House. 9 related planning applications.

Holly Bush Cottage

WRENN ID
hollow-trefoil-ridge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Holly Bush Cottage, Wheathampstead, AL5 5DS
OS grid reference
TL 158 159
Coordinates
51.82973, -0.32036
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · EPC · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Holly Bush Cottage is a house dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, originally timber-framed. Later, the infill was replaced with brick and the exterior was painted white. A gabled extension was added in the late 19th or early 20th century to the far end, away from the road. The roof is covered in plain tiles. The house is two storeys high with attics. The main range has five windows, all 20th-century leaded casements. A bay closest to the road is plastered and has lower windows, likely representing an early cross wing which was refronted at a later date. A prominent, good-quality 17th-century red brick chimney stack rises from the centre of the ridge, featuring four joined square shafts. A timber-framed rear extension, built near the road, has a tile-hung attic. Adjacent to this is the 19th-century gabled extension, characterized by segmental-headed windows.

Local climate

Holly Bush 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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  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2001
  • Related listed building consents — 9 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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