Tenements Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1971. Farmhouse.

Tenements Farmhouse

WRENN ID
late-turret-fen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 June 1971
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Tenements Farmhouse, Millhouse Lane, St. Stephen
OS grid reference
TL 105 031
Coordinates
51.71623, -0.40093
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Tenements Farmhouse is a substantial 15th-century hall house that was reduced and altered in the mid-17th century. It features a timber frame that is cased in painted brick and roughcast, topped with a plain tile roof that is half-hipped at the ends. The building has two storeys and a two-storeyed gabled porch at the center of the east side, creating a T plan. There are three casement windows. The porch includes a segmental-headed door arch flanked by blank oval panels, with a similar panel on the right return wall. A heavy plinth supports the structure. Inside the porch, offset to the right, is a large 15th-century moulded wood door frame with a three-centred head and chamfered spandrels. At the center of the ridge, there is a 17th-century red brick stack with three diagonal shafts, and on the north end elevation, a large 18th-century oven stack features three separate square shafts. The interior retains the structure of the open hall.

Local climate

Tenements Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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