39, Holywell Hill is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. House.
39, Holywell Hill
- WRENN ID
- fossil-doorway-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1971
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- TL 146 068
- Coordinates
- 51.74894, -0.34071
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
39 Holywell Hill is a 15th-century timber-framed building that has been refaced with plaster. It stands two storeys high and features three windows. The building has a high-pitched tiled roof that continues with the roof of the adjacent No 37. On the first floor, there are two replaced two-light casement windows with glazing bars and one central one-light window. The ground floor includes a carriageway on the left, a sash window with glazing bars set in a slightly projecting moulded frame, and a door with five fielded panels topped by a radial fanlight of plate tracery type, which is adorned with a cornice hood supported by curved brackets.
Local climate
39, Holywell Hill sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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