Woodrake Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Woodrake Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-cinder-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Woodrake Cottage, Barley Mow Lane, Colney Heath
- OS grid reference
- TL 189 059
- Coordinates
- 51.7393, -0.2788
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woodrake Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with early to mid-19th century casing and details. It features a timber frame and is covered in white-painted weatherboarding. The cottage has a steeply pitched plain tile roof with two weatherboarded casement dormers. It is one storey high with attics. On the ground floor, there are three 2-light glazing bar casements, with the rightmost one located in a lean-to addition. A plank door is situated on the left center of the building.
Local climate
Woodrake 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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