23 and 24, Bancroft is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 April 1951. House. 2 related planning applications.
23 and 24, Bancroft
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-hinge-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 April 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- 23 and 24, Bancroft, SG5 1JW
- OS grid reference
- TL 185 293
- Coordinates
- 51.95044, -0.27701
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
23 and 24 Bancroft is a 17th-century house with two storeys. The upper storey overhangs and is supported at intervals by canted bays that project from ground level. It features a carved wooden cornice beneath a tiled gambrel roof, which has four dormers known as Yorkshire lights. The facade is plastered and includes four 18th-century windows, each with turn sashes in a single broad frame. There are two doors, each with six panels; the top pair is glazed while the remainder is fielded. At one end, there is a separate section that contains a carriageway, where the old half-timber construction can be seen. Number 24 has Neogeorgian shop bow windows and a glazed door, while number 23 features a canted bay and a 19th-century shop window. Numbers 21 to 28 form a group with these buildings.
Local climate
23 and 24, Bancroft 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 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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.
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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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