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
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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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