34, Holywell Hill is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. House. 1 related planning application.

34, Holywell Hill

WRENN ID
steep-entrance-brook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 August 1971
Type
House
Address
34, Holywell Hill, AL1 1BZ
OS grid reference
TL 146 069
Coordinates
51.74995, -0.3405
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 34 Holywell Hill is a building dating from around 1700. It has two storeys and an attic, featuring four windows. The building is topped by a very high-pitched tiled roof with deep wooden eaves cornice. There are two square-headed dormers. The first-floor sash windows have gauged brick arches and glazing bars set in slightly recessed box frames, with the second window from the right being blocked. The left-hand window has cut, carved bricks in its arch. A green plaque from the Royal Insurance Company is located at the centre of the first floor. The ground floor has a modern shop front. No. 34 forms a group with No. 32A.

Local climate

34, Holywell Hill 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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