Apsley Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. House.
Apsley Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crooked-railing-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Apsley Cottage, 90, High Street, Colney Heath
- OS grid reference
- TL 201 060
- Coordinates
- 51.74014, -0.26116
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Apsley Cottage is an 18th-century house with a timber frame and roughcast exterior, topped by a steep slate roof. The building has two storeys and features two 20th-century glazing bar casements in their original openings. The gable ends are marked by broad external chimney stacks, with the left stack including an external oven and previously enclosed by an outshut. There is a circa 1900 door with a hood, and a single-storey extension added to the right in the 20th century.
Local climate
Apsley Cottage 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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