Breakspears is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. House, former farmhouse.

Breakspears

WRENN ID
white-sentry-quill
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Type
House, former farmhouse
Address
Breakspears, Green Lane, St. Michael
OS grid reference
TL 092 077
Coordinates
51.75805, -0.41819
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Breakspears is a house, formerly a farmhouse, dating from the mid-17th century. It has a timber frame with painted and red brick casing and features a plain tile roof with a central red brick chimney stack. The building follows a lobby entrance plan and is two storeys high, with one bay on each side of the stack. There is a 20th-century rear extension that forms a T shape.

The front (south) side displays 17th-century brickwork on the ground floor, while the upper floor is likely made of 18th-century brick. There are three glazing bar casements in original openings, with the ground floor windows having segmental heads. Above the door is a small square two-light 17th-century casement. The door frame is made of oak and dates from the 17th or 18th century. Inside, there are staircases located at the rear of the stack and heavy chamfered floor beams on either side of deep inglenooks.

Local climate

Breakspears 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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