May Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1971. Cottage.
May Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stark-cloister-bone
- 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
- May Cottage, 26, Sopwell Lane, AL1 1RR
- OS grid reference
- TL 147 068
- Coordinates
- 51.74877, -0.33947
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
May Cottage is a 16th-century timber-framed building that has recently been restored, featuring used stock brick filling. It stands two storeys high and has two windows. The building has a high-pitched, swept tiled roof that extends almost to ground level at the rear, along with a tall brick chimney stack. The first floor displays close set studs that rest on exposed beam ends of the overhanging upper floor, which is supported by three shouldered brackets. The ground floor has wide set timbers with some horizontal rails, and the windows have been renewed with casements. There is a new garage extension on the left side of the building.
Local climate
May 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 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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