14, Parliament Square is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 February 1950. Office. 6 related planning applications.
14, Parliament Square
- WRENN ID
- twisted-pinnacle-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 February 1950
- Type
- Office
- Address
- 14, Parliament Square, Hertford, SG14 1EF
- OS grid reference
- TL 325 125
- Coordinates
- 51.7958, -0.07892
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 14, Parliament Square is an early 19th-century printing works, subsequently converted to offices. The building is constructed of stucco over brickwork, with a Welsh slate roof hidden behind a parapet. It displays a neo-classical design.
The exterior comprises three storeys, with a plat band marking the first floor. The central bay is emphasised with four Tuscan pilasters, a frieze, and a cornice, topped with a blocking course. The windows are wooden sash windows with glazing bars, set within tall 12-pane frames on the first floor and six-pane frames on the second. The ground floor is treated as a basement podium, with three segmentally headed windows in the centre, and a recessed entrance to the right.
The interior was extensively altered in the 1970s and has not been inspected.
The site has a historical significance, previously occupied by Briant's Bell Foundry, established around 1780, within earlier buildings. Simson (later Simson Shand) printing works was established on the site around 1830 and rebuilt within the frontage block.
Local climate
14, Parliament Square 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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 — 4 transactions since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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