Darrowfield House is a Grade II* listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. A C18 House. 3 related planning applications.
Darrowfield House
- WRENN ID
- under-ledge-hawthorn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- Darrowfield House, St Michael's Street, AL3 4SW
- OS grid reference
- TL 136 073
- Coordinates
- 51.75315, -0.35455
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Darrowfield House, located on St Michael's Street, is the former Dower House of Gorhambury, also known as "New House". It dates from around 1700 and is built over two storeys with an attic, featuring five windows. The house has a high pitched, hipped tiled roof with end chimneys and a renewed modillion cornice topped with a small central pediment. There are three square dormers on the roof. The exterior is constructed of red brick with a diaper pattern of blue headers and includes a brick plinth. The ground floor windows have gauged red brick arches, and all windows are renewed sashes with glazing bars; those on the first floor are set in original, near-flush box frames. To the left, there is a two-storey, three-window extension designed in a similar style. The late 18th-century central doorcase features a fluted frieze supported by carved, scrolled consoles above flat pilasters, with paterae over brackets, dentils, and modillions on the cornice. The door is topped with a cornice head and a decorative fanlight with a fan pattern in the spandrels.
Local climate
Darrowfield 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 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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