Astridge Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse. 8 related planning applications.

Astridge Farmhouse

WRENN ID
night-screen-crimson
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Astridge Farmhouse, Lamer Lane, Wheathampstead, AL4 8LA
OS grid reference
TL 177 163
Coordinates
51.83327, -0.29275
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Astridge Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 15th century, which was altered and extended in the later 17th century. The building is cased in red brick from the late 18th century, with a roughcast right gable end and a stair turret on the rear left. The left gable end features exposed timber framing. The farmhouse has two storeys and attics, with four 18th-century wood casement windows, including segmental-headed windows on the ground floor. There is a floor band and a 20th-century gabled porch, along with one 18th-century hipped dormer.

Inside, the layout consists of three bays, with the two bays on the right having formerly served as an open hall. A timber frame chimney stack was inserted in the 16th century, and a floor was added in the later 17th century. A two-and-a-half storey wing was added on the left, which includes a stair tower and a lateral chimney stack with three square shafts. The stairs remain intact.

Local climate

Astridge Farmhouse 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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