College Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 August 1986. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
College Farm
- WRENN ID
- late-screen-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 August 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- College Farm, 41, Trowley Hill Road, Flamstead, AL3 8DH
- OS grid reference
- TL 078 144
- Coordinates
- 51.81854, -0.43631
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
College Farm is a farmhouse that has been converted into a private house. It was built in the early 18th century for University College Oxford. The structure is made of sandy red brick that has been limewashed, topped with a steep old red tile hipped roof. The building is two and a half stories tall and has a cellar, designed in the Queen Anne style with a rectangular shape facing south, set in a large garden.
At the northwest, there is a single-storey rear wing constructed from colourwashed brick and flint, featuring a slate roof. The layout includes a central entrance and end chimneys, with a staircase located at the rear. Inside, there are internal gable chimneys with three flues on the west side and two on the east. The symmetrical south front showcases a plinth, a plat-band, and a corbelled brick eaves course.
There are three gabled dormers at the eaves, and the windows are three-light, small-pane casements set under segmental arches, with the ground floor windows being taller. A large gabled open timber porch supported by brick piers leads to a half-glazed 19th-century panelled door. The cellar is located under the eastern part of the house. College Farm occupies a prominent position next to the churchyard at the beginning of the older part of the village.
Local climate
College Farm sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- 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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