Brier Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. House.
Brier Cottage
- WRENN ID
- unlit-threshold-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Brier Cottage, Barnet Road, London Colney
- OS grid reference
- TL 183 036
- Coordinates
- 51.71912, -0.28832
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brier Cottage is a house that dates from the late 16th century and has been altered in the 18th and 20th centuries. It features plastered walls and a steeply pitched plain tile roof. The building is two storeys high and has three recent glazing bar casements, along with a recent front extension. The structure consists of two heavily framed bays, both supported by chamfered bearers, with the left bay also having chamfered joists. The west end wall is framed in timber from the 18th century, and there is an 18th-century stack that has been inserted at the rear of the left bay. The rear roof has a catslide design.
Local climate
Brier 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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