Appspond Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Appspond Cottage
- WRENN ID
- carved-chamber-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Appspond Cottage, Appspond Lane, St. Michael
- OS grid reference
- TL 113 055
- Coordinates
- 51.73733, -0.38812
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Appspond Cottage is a cottage built in 1788, as indicated by the date on the brick. The building features a red brick ground floor and a roughcast upper floor. It has a plain tile gable end roof with an internal stack located on the left end. The cottage is two storeys high and has two 20th-century glazing bar casements. To the right, there is an original wide plank door that includes a glazed pane and is framed with heavy oak. The rear of the cottage showcases twin gable ends from the late 18th century to early 19th century. Inside, the ground floor is lined with early to mid-17th century oak panelling, which was likely brought from Old Gorhambury when it was no longer in use in the 1780s.
Local climate
Appspond Cottage 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% 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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