Castle Farmhouse and Adjoining Barns to West and North West is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse.
Castle Farmhouse and Adjoining Barns to West and North West
- WRENN ID
- mired-corner-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Castle Farmhouse and Adjoining Barns to West and North West, AL4 8HU
- OS grid reference
- TL 157 147
- Coordinates
- 51.81941, -0.32164
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Castle Farmhouse, dating from the mid to late 17th century, features a ground floor of 18th century red brick and an upper floor that is roughcast and half-timbered from the 20th century. The building has a steeply pitched plain tile roof and stands two storeys tall with attics. At the ridge, there is a central red brick stack with four joined shafts. The farmhouse has a lobby entrance plan, with the door previously located on the east side. Part of the original staircase remains behind the stack on the first floor. The exterior retains small two-light casements with diamond mullions on both the ground and first floors, along with 20th century casements on either side and at the front elevation.
To the south, there is a later 17th century single-storey outbuilding. Adjacent to this on the west is a single-storey timber frame barn from the 17th to 18th century, featuring weatherboarding and a plain tile roof, consisting of three bays with a brick and flint base. To the northwest, there is an 18th century barn with red brick walls and weatherboarded gables, topped with a plain tile clasped purlin roof.
Local climate
Castle Farmhouse and Adjoining Barns to West and North West 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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