Old Parkbury Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1971. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Old Parkbury Farmhouse

WRENN ID
roaming-floor-aspen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 June 1971
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Old Parkbury Farmhouse, Radlett Road, St. Stephen, AL2 2DZ
OS grid reference
TL 160 021
Coordinates
51.70621, -0.32233
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Parkbury Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 15th to 16th century, with an early to mid-19th century casing. It features a timber frame and a yellow stock brick front, topped by a plain tile hipped roof. The building is two storeys high and has five recessed sash windows, with the left and right centre windows being blank. A central flush panel door is topped by a shaped bracket hood. There is a floor band and a wide eaves soffit. At the south end of the house, there is a truncated low gable, behind which stands a large late 17th century lateral chimney stack; this section was formerly a cross wing of the earlier house. The roughcast rear elevation displays two lateral stacks, with the northern one being larger, and four flush sash windows. The house likely consists of four timber frame bays, with a gable end at the south that has been heightened on the south side.

Local climate

Old Parkbury Farmhouse 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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