Bell Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. House. 3 related planning applications.

Bell Cottage

WRENN ID
shadowed-ember-foxglove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Bell Cottage, Lamb Lane, Redbourn, AL3 7BS
OS grid reference
TL 106 123
Coordinates
51.7991, -0.39723
Source
Historic England listing

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

Description

Bell Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with an 18th-century extension that is set back from the road. The building features a timber frame and is finished in roughcast. The main block has a plain tile roof and a simple moulded wood cornice. It is two storeys high and has three 19th-century two-light casement windows on the first floor. The ground floor includes segmental-headed casement windows and a door, along with a 20th-century porch. The extension has a lower slate roof. Inside, there are large inglenook fireplaces on both floors.

Local climate

Bell Cottage 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 1998
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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