Stable Block at Astridge Farm is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Stable block.
Stable Block at Astridge Farm
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-rubble-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Stable block
- Address
- Stable Block at Astridge Farm, Lamer Lane, Wheathampstead
- OS grid reference
- TL 177 163
- Coordinates
- 51.83331, -0.29304
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The stable block at Astridge Farm is a 17th-century structure featuring a timber frame with weatherboarding and a plain tile roof. It consists of a single-storey range with five bays. Inside, there are original 17th and 18th-century partitions, along with feed boxes that date from the 18th or 19th century. The building has three stable doors and two early slat ventilators. Additionally, there are small narrow additions from the 18th century at each end of the stable block.
Local climate
Stable Block at Astridge Farm 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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