Oak Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. A C17 Residential.

Oak Farmhouse

WRENN ID
noble-wall-finch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Type
Residential
Address
Oak Farmhouse, Coopers Green Lane, Sandridge, AL4 9HR
OS grid reference
TL 184 089
Coordinates
51.76692, -0.28511
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Oak Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the mid to late 17th century, with the possibility of an earlier core. It has a 19th to 20th-century casing. The building features a timber frame with a red brick ground floor and a roughcast upper floor, topped by a pantile roof. A large red brick chimney stack is located towards the right, featuring eight joined shafts arranged in a cruciform plan, while there is a 17th to 18th-century external stack on the left gable end. The farmhouse is two storeys tall with attics, making it unusually tall for its type. The exterior includes four 20th-century casements and three original gabled dormers. On the left gable end, there are two Gothic-style porches from around 1840, with the right one featuring a bay window. These porches are made of yellow stock brick and red brick, both adorned with ogee-headed arches. Inside, the layout consists of three large bays, each with double floor beams, and there is a blocked inglenook. The remains of a newel staircase can be found behind the stack in the attic. Additionally, there are 19th-century rear extensions.

Local climate

Oak Farmhouse 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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