Nicholls Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse.

Nicholls Farmhouse

WRENN ID
quiet-balcony-sepia
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Nicholls Farmhouse, Lybury Lane, Redbourn
OS grid reference
TL 092 129
Coordinates
51.80482, -0.41658
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nicholls Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates back to the 16th century or earlier, with recasing and extension occurring in the late 17th century. It features chequered red brick and a plain tile roof, standing two storeys high with attics and a cellar. The lower gable end is located on the north side. The garden elevation has three windows, which include camber and flat-headed casements with modern glazing, and there is one gabled attic dormer. The building has a plinth and a floor band. The gable end on the right side has a blank attic window and reveals 16th-century chamfered beams and a large inglenook fireplace inside. The north elevation is stuccoed. At the southern end, there is a single-storey outhouse from the 17th century, which has an internal end stack, and there is a rear extension from the 19th century.

Local climate

Nicholls Farmhouse 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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