Granary and Adjoining Outbuilding at Popefield Farm is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1972. Granary, outbuilding.
Granary and Adjoining Outbuilding at Popefield Farm
- WRENN ID
- secret-fireplace-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1972
- Type
- Granary, outbuilding
- Address
- Granary and Adjoining Outbuilding at Popefield Farm, AL4 0HW
- OS grid reference
- TL 200 079
- Coordinates
- 51.75755, -0.26163
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The granary and adjoining open shed at Popefield Farm date from the late 17th century and early 19th century, respectively. The granary features a timber frame with 19th-century brick infill and has a plain tile gable end roof. It stands two storeys tall, with attics, making it an unusually tall example. The front of the granary includes a plank door with a slatted ventilator above it and a small ventilator in the gable. It is supported by red brick stilts. Inside, the granary retains well-preserved fittings, including original floorboards, beams, and joists, with the upper floor featuring original plank partitions. The adjoining shed has a red brick wall at the rear and a slate roof, while the front is open and supported by bracketed posts.
Local climate
Granary and Adjoining Outbuilding at Popefield 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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