Sandridgebury House, Sandridgebury Court and the Old School is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1953. House, school. 13 related planning applications.
Sandridgebury House, Sandridgebury Court and the Old School
- WRENN ID
- lunar-sandstone-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1953
- Type
- House, school
- Address
- Sandridgebury House, Sandridgebury Court and the Old School, Sandridgebury Lane, AL3 6JB
- OS grid reference
- TL 163 105
- Coordinates
- 51.78167, -0.31527
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sandridgebury House, together with Sandridgebury Court and The Old School, is a small country house dating to the late 17th century, with significant alterations in the early 19th century. A western extension was added in the mid-to-late 19th century and recased in the mid-20th century. The building is constructed of red brick and has a hipped roof covered in plain tiles, featuring a large, modillioned cornice detail. The front elevation has eight windows, with shallow two-window projections on each end. The windows are recessed sashes. A late 17th-century porch is located towards the right-hand side, set within a 20th-century brick porch. The porch features a door with a bolection-moulded frame, heavy leaf-carved consoles supporting a deep hood, with cornices continuing around the porch. Strapwork panelling is found above the door and on the hood's soffit, and a semicircular hood features a carved head and eagles. An early 19th-century door is located on the left end, supported by long brackets. The left-hand extension has five sash windows in a Neo-Georgian style and a lower hipped roof. The building is double pile. The rear of the main house has eight windows. A slightly recessed bay on the left contains a modified late 17th-century door surround with a bolection-moulded frame, leaf-carved consoles, and a pulvinated frieze. The two right-hand windows are also slightly recessed but set further apart. The interior of Sandridgebury Court includes two late 17th-century fireplaces. A first-floor front room contains a mid-18th-century Palladian-style doorcase and cornices.
Local climate
Sandridgebury House, Sandridgebury Court and the Old School 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 13 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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