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
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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