Dairy, Immediately North of Gorhambury House is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Dairy. 9 related planning applications.
Dairy, Immediately North of Gorhambury House
- WRENN ID
- solitary-hammer-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Dairy
- Address
- Dairy, Immediately North of Gorhambury House, Bluehouse Hill, St. Michael, AL3 6AH
- OS grid reference
- TL 113 078
- Coordinates
- 51.75863, -0.38801
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dairy, located immediately north of Gorhambury House, dates from around 1830 and is possibly designed by W. Atkinson. It is a single-storey building with a square plan, finished in stucco and topped with a broad slate roof supported by a peristyle of slender cast iron colonnettes. The wide eaves feature a plastered soffit. There are three windows on both the east and west sides, with the east side having a slightly projecting central bay. The west side includes a blocked central opening, a casement window on the left, and a double door on the right.
Local climate
Dairy, Immediately North of Gorhambury House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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