King Charles II Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. House.
King Charles II Cottage
- WRENN ID
- plain-rood-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- King Charles II Cottage, Westwick Row, St. Michael
- OS grid reference
- TL 092 066
- Coordinates
- 51.74815, -0.41948
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
King Charles II Cottage is a house dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century. It features an exposed timber frame and painted brickwork, topped with a plain tile roof. The building consists of two bays and is two stories high, with an external stack on the roadside gable end. It has two 20th-century leaded casement windows and diagonal wall braces. Inside, there are exposed unchamfered beams and joists, which were originally covered with nailed ceiling boards. There is also a 20th-century extension that extends away from the road.
Local climate
King Charles II 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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