1 and 3, Parliament Square is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. Emporium, shops. 6 related planning applications.
1 and 3, Parliament Square
- WRENN ID
- second-gargoyle-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Emporium, shops
- Address
- 1 and 3, Parliament Square, Hertford, SG14 1EX
- OS grid reference
- TL 326 125
- Coordinates
- 51.79573, -0.07822
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 1 and 3 Parliament Square is an emporium, now used as shops with offices above, built around 1870. The building features a yellow brick front that has been colourwashed, topped with a Welsh slated roof and a brick dentil cornice with a moulded band. There are square blocking pieces above the pilasters on the facade, each adorned with terracotta urn finials.
The exterior consists of three storeys and a four-bay facade, with an additional bay on the left above the carriageway. The second floor has four tall 8-pane sash windows, set on stuccoed sills and recessed under rubbed brick flat arches. There are pilasters on the left and right, with a similar window in the left bay. The first floor features a full-width showroom window with six bays, subdivided into two and three lights by moulded glazing bars, and is topped with flat bell caps, intermediate mullions, and transoms. The pilasters here have Corinthian caps and foliated reeded consoles, with a fascia that includes a moulded band and a bold moulded cornice above. The left-hand bay at the second-floor level has a single recessed 8-pane sash window. The ground floor has plain pilasters with stucco blocks at the first-floor level, roll and projecting plinth bases, and two full-width 20th-century timber shopfronts with plate glass windows; there is a carriageway to the rear at the far left.
The interior has not been inspected. This building forms a significant street frontage group with Nos. 5 and 7 Parliament Square.
Local climate
1 and 3, 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 — 2 transactions since 2025
- 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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