Granary at Searches Farm is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Granary.
Granary at Searches Farm
- WRENN ID
- other-tracery-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Granary
- Address
- Granary at Searches Farm, Searches Lane, St. Stephen, WD5 0SB
- OS grid reference
- TL 113 034
- Coordinates
- 51.71848, -0.38944
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The granary at Searches Farm is a building from the late 18th century or early 19th century, featuring a barn extension to the west that includes a red brick wall dating from the 18th to 20th centuries. The granary itself is constructed of red brick and topped with a plain tile pyramid roof. It has dentilled brick eaves and stands two storeys tall. On the north side, there are plank doors at both the ground and first floors. The south side features a segmental-headed casement window on the ground floor, with an original two-light leaded casement window above it. This building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Granary at Searches Farm 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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