Jessamine Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. Cottage. 6 related planning applications.
Jessamine Cottage
- WRENN ID
- narrow-flagstone-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1971
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Jessamine Cottage, St Michael's Street, AL3 4SJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 135 073
- Coordinates
- 51.75343, -0.35609
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Jessamine Cottage is a mid-19th century building located on St Michael's Street. It was constructed on a church plan, featuring an aisled nave with a clerestory and a chancel-like extension. The architectural style is similar to that of the nearby school. The cottage has a high-pitched roof and pent roofs over the "aisles," which are adorned with alternating bands of plain and "fishscale" tiles. The walls are made of flint, complemented by a yellow brick cornice, quoins, window dressings, and a plinth. A central brick chimney with four shafts is present. The windows exhibit irregular fenestration, consisting of one-, two-, and three-light casement windows, some of which include transoms. Access to the cottage is through a small porch. Jessamine Cottage, along with St Michael's Church of England School and St Michael's Church, forms a cohesive group.
Local climate
Jessamine 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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