Park Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1973. House. 2 related planning applications.
Park Cottage
- WRENN ID
- first-marble-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Park Cottage, Park Street Lane, St. Stephen, AL2 2JA
- OS grid reference
- TL 145 037
- Coordinates
- 51.72057, -0.34325
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Park Cottage is a house that dates from the late 16th century, with extensions from the 18th and 19th centuries that extend away from the road. The early part of the building features an exposed timber frame with red brick infill. There is a red brick rear wing that forms a T shape. The roofs are covered with plain tiles. The earlier section has a large external stack with two shafts, which is enclosed by a single-storey weatherboarded outbuilding. The elevation facing the drive has wide-spaced studs and two casement windows. On the right side, there is an early 19th-century plank door with a simple wood frame and a cut bracket hood. A small casement dormer is located to the right. The taller rear range includes, in the centre, an 18th-century gabled extension to the earlier part. The garden elevation of this section displays three bays, with the centre bay from the 18th century featuring diapered red brick and a brick dentil cornice. There is a tripartite sash window on the first floor. The outbuildings next to the road are accompanied by short stretches of early 19th-century garden wall on each side.
Local climate
Park 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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