Hillside is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.

Hillside

WRENN ID
guardian-pavement-laurel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Hillside, Lamer Lane, Wheathampstead, AL4 8RU
OS grid reference
TL 177 156
Coordinates
51.82686, -0.29314
Source
Historic England listing

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

Description

Hillside is a house dating from the later 17th century, with alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries. The original structure was timber-framed, but the front was later rebuilt in brick, featuring a distinctive chequered floor band which is visible above roughcast applied in the late 19th century. The roof is steeply pitched and covered in plain tiles. A large external stack once stood on the south side, though the shafts have since been removed. The house has two storeys. There are two 19th-century casement windows on each floor, each with three lights and a cambered head to the ground floor windows. A 19th-century plank door is topped with a gabled hood. The interior retains chamfer-stopped spine beams with run-out stops. An inglenook fireplace is present on the south side, and some 17th and 18th-century fittings remain.

Local climate

Hillside 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 — 5 transactions since 2007
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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