42, Holywell Hill is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. A C17 Public house. 2 related planning applications.
42, Holywell Hill
- WRENN ID
- sombre-flint-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1971
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- 42, Holywell Hill, AL1 1BX
- OS grid reference
- TL 146 069
- Coordinates
- 51.74955, -0.34075
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
42 Holywell Hill is a 17th-century building that stands two storeys tall with an attic. The exterior is plastered and features a high-pitched, swept tiled roof, along with a tiled gable on the dormer. The first floor has two windows; the left window is a projecting square bay situated above a ground floor pent-house projection that has a modern window and a 19th-century door. The right window on the first floor is a modern casement. On the ground floor, the right side is weatherboarded and includes a replaced sash window with glazing bars. This building is part of a group that includes Nos 36 to 58 (even).
Local climate
42, 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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