Pipers Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. A Early Modern Cottages. 1 related planning application.
Pipers Cottages
- WRENN ID
- dim-ledge-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottages
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- Pipers Cottages, 1 and 2, 3 and 4, Pipers Lane, Wheathampstead, AL5 1AF
- OS grid reference
- TL 159 134
- Coordinates
- 51.80808, -0.32028
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pipers Cottages consist of three dwellings arranged as two pairs. The right-hand block (Nos 3 and 4) dates from the late 17th or early 18th century and is timber-framed. The left-hand block is of late 18th-century brick construction, and the painted brick facade of the entire range dates from this period. The cottages are two storeys high with a plain tile roof. A floorband and dentil brick eaves run along the front. There are four casement windows, with cambered heads on the ground floor; the left-side windows are three-light. The right-hand block features a plastered gable end with a small attic casement. A central square ridge stack is visible. A 18th-century rear lean-to has been added. The roof is a clasped purlin design.
Local climate
Pipers Cottages sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2012
- 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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