Granary at Cross Farm, Including Stable Block is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. A C17 Granary/stables. 2 related planning applications.

Granary at Cross Farm, Including Stable Block

WRENN ID
peeling-stronghold-equinox
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Type
Granary/stables
Address
Granary at Cross Farm, Including Stable Block, Cross Lane, Harpenden Town, AL5 1HH
OS grid reference
TL 151 129
Coordinates
51.80324, -0.33208
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The granary at Cross Farm, which now serves as stables, dates from the late 17th century. It features a timber frame with 17th-century red brick and early 20th-century mauve brick infill. The building has a plain tile gable end roof and stands two storeys high. The right-hand bay appears to have originally been a small lodging and retains original small window frames on both the ground and first floors, with the upper window showcasing two wooden diamond mullions. The left two bays are fitted with early 20th-century glazing bar windows and lattice ventilators. Inside, the granary retains its original floor beams. The road-facing elevation is weatherboarded. Adjoining the northeast side is a late 17th-century chequered red brick wall, which has a plinth and oversailing coping, serving as the rear wall to a small four-bay stable block from the 20th century, also weatherboarded and topped with a plain tile roof.

Local climate

Granary at Cross Farm, Including Stable Block 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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