Granary at Aldwickbury Farm is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Granary. 1 related planning application.
Granary at Aldwickbury Farm
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-doorway-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Granary
- Address
- Granary at Aldwickbury Farm, Piggotts Hill Lane, Wheathampstead, AL5 1AB
- OS grid reference
- TL 148 138
- Coordinates
- 51.81139, -0.33488
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The granary at Aldwickbury Farm is a mid-18th century structure made of red brick, with some parts featuring a chequered pattern. It is a square, two-storey building topped with a hipped plain tile roof. Atop the granary is a weatherboarded cupola that has arched openings and a pyramid-shaped plain tile roof, along with a wrought iron weathervane. The building features a floor band and a well-crafted moulded brick cornice. On the east side, there are plank doors leading to both the ground and first floors, with the upper floor boasting a jettied balcony.
Local climate
Granary at Aldwickbury 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 2007
- 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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