Farm Buildings Including Mill Office at Hyde Mill is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1998. A C19 Farm buildings.
Farm Buildings Including Mill Office at Hyde Mill
- WRENN ID
- sheer-iron-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1998
- Type
- Farm buildings
- Address
- Farm Buildings Including Mill Office at Hyde Mill, Lower Harpenden Road, Wheathampstead
- OS grid reference
- TL 132 169
- Coordinates
- 51.83986, -0.35715
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A complex of late 19th-century farm buildings including a mill office, with minor 20th-century alterations. The buildings are constructed of brick and weatherboarding, with slated roof coverings. The layout is a rectangular courtyard, situated south of the mill and farmhouse. The Mill Office is positioned in the north-west corner, featuring an integral carriage shed and a wall connecting to a mill race arch. Behind the office is a single-storey stable range with pig sties, the pig sties in four bays at the north end, incorporating a timber screen wall to the yard with brick pens featuring arched openings and brick dividing walls. Above the pens is a storage floor with a slatted screen extending to the ridge. The front of the stables continues in an arcade, with boarded walls and split doors, including an open bay in the centre of the range. A return range of brick extends west and then north, connecting to the barn and grain store.
The L-shaped barn and grain store is single-storey with lofts, with a wide, full-height double doorway on the west elevation, beneath a segmental arch. The return wall to the left has two ground-floor windows. A blind gable at the south end forms the north side of the access into the yard. The north elevation faces northwest and flanks the mill entrance drive, featuring a central doorway flanked by shallow arch-headed openings set immediately above door heads at eaves level, with four high-level windows of 4X3 panes on either side. The east elevation fronts the road with three arch-headed double doors providing roadside loading facilities.
These farm buildings were designed to complement the adjacent mill complex, providing extensive stabling for working horses, grain storage and processing facilities, and roadside loading/unloading capabilities. The farm buildings, mill office, attached wall, and mill race arch are considered to have group value with Hyde Mill, its attached granary and store, the sluice gate, and Hyde Mill Farmhouse.
Local climate
Farm Buildings Including Mill Office at Hyde Mill 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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