Old Dairy Farm is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Old Dairy Farm
- WRENN ID
- woven-outpost-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Old Dairy Farm, Hemel Hempstead Road, Redbourn, AL3 7NB
- OS grid reference
- TL 105 120
- Coordinates
- 51.79617, -0.39765
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early 19th century timber-frame farmhouse. It is located on the south side of Redbourn Common, Redbourn, along Hemel Hempstead Road. The walls are roughcast, with a weatherboarded gable end facing east. The roof is covered in plain tiles and features internal chimney stacks. The farmhouse is two storeys high. There are three 20th-century casement windows in the original window openings. The central entrance has a moulded wooden frame, shaped brackets, and an open pediment hood, leading to a four-panel flush door with two glazed panels. Inside, the original through passage and a half-glazed back door remain. A staircase is located to the left. 19th-century extensions are present at the rear, and a 20th-century extension is located to the west.
Local climate
Old Dairy 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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