The Homestead is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 February 1974. A C17 House.
The Homestead
- WRENN ID
- stranded-rampart-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 February 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Homestead, 71, Park Street Lane, St. Stephen
- OS grid reference
- TL 144 035
- Coordinates
- 51.71945, -0.34405
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Homestead is a house that was formerly two cottages, dating from the mid-17th century. It features tarred weatherboarding and a 19th-century red brick ground floor. The roof is made of plain tiles and has a central ridge stack. The building is two storeys high and has three 19th-century cast iron casements with two and three lights. On the ground floor, there are doors at each end and two casements between them; the right door is an early 19th-century design in a chamfered wood frame. The left gable end is constructed from 17th-century red brick and has a small external stack. Inside, the layout is a three-bay design with all exposed framing, and the right bay features chamfered joists.
Local climate
The Homestead 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% 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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