Pollards Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1953. Farmhouse. 11 related planning applications.
Pollards Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- spare-tracery-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1953
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Pollards Farmhouse, Harpenden Rural, AL5 3PE
- OS grid reference
- TL 107 158
- Coordinates
- 51.83069, -0.39373
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pollard’s Farmhouse is a 16th-century or earlier farmhouse, now a house, located in Kinsbourne Green. It comprises a gabled cross wing on the right and a left cross wing, both likely of 16th-century origins, with a three-bay central section. The structure is characterized by an exposed timber frame with painted brick infill, while the wings are roughcast. The roof is covered with plain tiles. Above the central entrance doorway is a small two-light casement within an early window frame. A 19th-century triple-hung sash window is positioned to the right of the door, and a 19th-century iron casement to the left. The left wing features a triple sash window on the ground floor and a matching triple casement above. The right cross wing is two bays deep and has an external chimney stack dating to the 17th century. A single gabled dormer is situated in the centre of the range, likely marking the former location of a staircase on the right side of the main doorway. The interior retains exposed ceiling beams throughout.
Local climate
Pollards Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 2 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 11 applications
- 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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