The Homestead is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.
The Homestead
- WRENN ID
- mired-keep-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Homestead, Down Green Lane, Wheathampstead, AL4 8EB
- OS grid reference
- TL 167 132
- Coordinates
- 51.80566, -0.30804
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Homestead is a house dating from the early 18th century. It has a timber frame and was refronted and extended on the right side in the late 18th century. The exterior is finished in painted brick, topped with a plain tile roof that features a central ridge stack. The house has a lobby entrance plan and stands two storeys tall. It has dentilled brick eaves and four windows, with the ground floor windows being segmental-headed and featuring original lead casements set in oak frames. A 20th-century gabled porch has been added. Inside, the property includes chamfered floor beams and joists, as well as inglenooks on either side.
Local climate
The Homestead 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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