Memorial Hall at Bishops Stortford College is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 January 1971. Hall. 7 related planning applications.
Memorial Hall at Bishops Stortford College
- WRENN ID
- young-tallow-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 January 1971
- Type
- Hall
- Address
- Memorial Hall at Bishops Stortford College, Maze Green Road, Bishop's Stortford, CM23 2PJ
- OS grid reference
- TL 481 213
- Coordinates
- 51.87136, 0.14991
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Memorial Hall at Bishops Stortford College is a single-storey, detached building constructed in 1922 by Clough Williams Ellis. It features a modified classical style, built from yellow brick with Portland stone dressings, and has a steeply pitched pantiled roof topped with a central copper-covered cupola. The long south side is adorned with an order of brick pilasters that have stone bases and an entablature, which is crowned by a pair of urns. There are four tall, square-headed windows, flanked by groups of three round-arched openings with circular windows above them.
On the east front, paired stone pilasters frame a two-columned Doric portico, in antis, which includes three-light windows. The upper part is elaborately designed with a central circular window, flanked by pairs of urns and consoles. The opposite end of the building is simpler in design. Inside, there is an open vestibule that is flanked by small compartments, one of which contains a stair leading to a gallery above. Additionally, there is a shaped stage-organ compartment that projects from the centre of the north side.
Local climate
Memorial Hall at Bishops Stortford College sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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