Beechtree Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.
Beechtree Cottages
- WRENN ID
- keen-newel-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Beechtree Cottages, 1, Hemel Hempstead Road, St. Michael, HP3 8LA
- OS grid reference
- TL 102 059
- Coordinates
- 51.7416, -0.40483
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beechtree Cottages is a house dating from around 1800 for the front block, with a rear wing that is from the 17th century or earlier. The front features a chequered red brick facade, while the rear is constructed with a timber frame that is cased in brick and plaster. The roofs are covered with plain tiles. The front of the house has two storeys and includes dentilled brick eaves. There are two flush sash windows, with the ground floor windows having segmental heads. To the left of the centre, there is a blocked door. The side elevation features an early 19th-century plank door that has a cut bracketed pediment hood. The rear block also has two storeys, with one glazing bar casement window on both the ground and first floors. The west side of the rear has a truncated gable end adjacent to the front block.
Local climate
Beechtree Cottages 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1999
- 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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