Popefield Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1972. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Popefield Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- tired-slate-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1972
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Popefield Farmhouse, Hatfield Road, Colney Heath, AL4 0HW
- OS grid reference
- TL 200 079
- Coordinates
- 51.75778, -0.26143
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Popefield Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the mid-17th century, with late 19th-century window alterations and restoration that took place around 1980. The building features a timber frame with a painted brick ground floor and plastered upper floors, topped with plain tile roofs. It stands two storeys high with attics. The front of the farmhouse has two wide gable ends and a narrow one-window centre, along with a one-window, two-storey wing on the right. All windows are flush glazing bar sashes, with the gable ends and wing having triple hung sashes, while the central sash is single hung. There is a flush panel door located beneath the stack, which is a tall red brick stack with a cruciform plan and an arris on the front face. A continuous plank band runs above the ground floor. The rear elevation is fully plastered. There is a 17th-century painted brick extension that continues on the right side, connecting to a 19th-century barn range. Inside, the house features a good oak newel staircase that rises to the attic behind the stack.
Local climate
Popefield 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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