Bees Nest Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 August 1974. A C17 House. 3 related planning applications.
Bees Nest Cottage
- WRENN ID
- keen-gutter-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 August 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bees Nest Cottage, North Common Road, Redbourn, AL3 7DB
- OS grid reference
- TL 102 120
- Coordinates
- 51.79665, -0.40299
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bees Nest Cottage is a house that was originally built as part of a terrace of five tenements in the early to mid 17th century. The cottage features an exposed timber frame with red brick infill from the 17th to 19th centuries. It has a plain tile roof and three red brick ridge chimney stacks with joined square shafts. The building is one storey high with attics, and it includes three gabled casement dormers. At the right end, there is a small gabled cross wing, which may have been added slightly later. The ground floor has six recent leaded casements, and there is a modern central porch along with a rear extension to the north. Inside, the cottage has exposed chamfered floor beams throughout.
Local climate
Bees Nest 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 — 3 transactions since 1999
- 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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