36 and 38, Holywell Hill is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. House. 11 related planning applications.
36 and 38, Holywell Hill
- WRENN ID
- under-corner-rye
- 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
- 36 and 38, Holywell Hill, AL1 1BT
- OS grid reference
- TL 146 069
- Coordinates
- 51.74977, -0.34062
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 36 and 38 on Holywell Hill are two adjoining buildings from the later 18th century. No 36 is three storeys high and features three windows, with a moderately pitched tiled roof. The building is constructed of brown brick with red brick dressings and has a brick parapet. The windows have gauged, flat brick arches and are recessed, though the sashes have been replaced. The entrance has a doorcase with an open pediment and a cornice supported by fluted columns, leading to a door with six fielded panels, a cornice head, and a decorative fanlight.
No 38, also from the later 18th century, is two storeys tall with three windows and has an earlier gabled T-extension at the rear. It is made of brown brick with a parapet and has a high-pitched tiled roof. The first-floor sash windows are in slightly recessed, moulded frames, although the centre window is blocked. The ground floor windows have modern glazing. The entrance is located on the left and features a doorcase with an open pediment and a cornice head, supported by fluted and reeded columns, leading to a door with a decorative fanlight.
Nos 36 to 58 (even) form a group.
Local climate
36 and 38, 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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- Related listed building consents — 11 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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