Smallford Station is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 1999. Railway station. 1 related planning application.
Smallford Station
- WRENN ID
- north-entrance-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 January 1999
- Type
- Railway station
- Address
- Smallford Station, Colney Heath
- OS grid reference
- TL 198 072
- Coordinates
- 51.75077, -0.26587
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Smallford Station is a railway station that has been converted into an office building. It was constructed in 1866 for the Great Northern Railway. The building features a timber-framed structure with a weatherboarded exterior and a roof covered in Welsh slate. It is a single-storey building with two plain doors and two 4 over 4 pane sash windows with vertical glazing bars on the road elevation. The hipped roof has an external brick stack on the left-hand gable and a ridge stack at the right-hand end. The platform elevation also has two doors and three windows similar to those on the road side. The interior has not been inspected.
Originally opened as Springfield in February 1866, the station was part of the Great Northern Railway branch from Hatfield to St Albans. It was renamed Smallford on 1st October 1879 and closed on 1st October 1951. This building is a little-altered example of a small wayside station built by the Great Northern Railway in 1866, making it a rare survival of this type of structure.
Local climate
Smallford Station sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% 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 — 1 application
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