Coach Lane Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. House. 3 related planning applications.

Coach Lane Cottage

WRENN ID
tilted-chapel-cobweb
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Coach Lane Cottage, 39, Leyton Road, Harpenden Town, AL5 2JB
OS grid reference
TL 135 137
Coordinates
51.81129, -0.35432
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Coach Lane Cottage is a house incorporating a 15th-century timber-frame range and a later, 20th-century gabled bay. The front of the building is plastered, with a plain tile roof. It is two storeys high and has leaded casement windows. A 20th-century half-timbered porch features a jettied upper floor, a gable, and a square leaded oriel window on the first floor. The south elevation exhibits exposed timber framing with painted brick nogging. It has three bays, with a possible former hall in the middle bay. The rear two bays have a slightly raised roof line. An inserted 17th-century red brick stack connects with four square shafts. There are four windows, the left three being in original 16th and 17th-century openings. Inside the front bay, there is a heavy, unmoulded beam and flat joists. A former timber frame chimney stack is also present.

Local climate

Coach Lane 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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  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
  • 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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