Church Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. House. 6 related planning applications.

Church Farm Cottage

WRENN ID
south-chalk-claret
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Church Farm Cottage, 7, Leyton Green, Harpenden Town, AL5 2TG
OS grid reference
TL 133 141
Coordinates
51.81485, -0.35724
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Farm Cottage is a house with origins in the 17th and 18th centuries, featuring a front block that dates to around 1830. The building is constructed of red brick, with the facade painted white, and has a plain tile roof with engaged chimney stacks at the gable ends. The eaves are adorned with dentilled brickwork. The cottage is two storeys high and has three windows, with the centre window on the first floor being blind. On the ground floor, there are two French casements, and the door on the right is set within a recent garage but retains part of its original reeded surround. The rear of the cottage consists of two overlapping sections. The south elevation is partly weatherboarded and features a 4-light 18th-century leaded casement. There is a tall 18th-century red brick stack on the left and another tall stack on the north side. The roofs are hipped and covered with plain tiles. Inside, the cottage has timber framing.

Local climate

Church Farm Cottage 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
  • Related listed building consents — 6 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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