North Hertfordshire District Council Offices is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 April 1951. Council offices.

North Hertfordshire District Council Offices

WRENN ID
rooted-fireplace-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 April 1951
Type
Council offices
Address
North Hertfordshire District Council Offices, Brand Street
OS grid reference
TL 183 293
Coordinates
51.94982, -0.27966
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The North Hertfordshire District Council Offices, originally built as a Friends' Meeting House in 1840, is a two-storey stuccoed building characterized by its simple design. It has a long rectangular shape topped with a flat hipped slate roof. The ground floor extends forward from the long side and is covered by a flat roof. The upper storey features five windows with plain reveals, while the projecting lower storey has walls for three central windows. Each end of the projection was originally open as loggias supported by Doric pillars. A modern wing with eight windows, designed to match the original style, projects at right angles on the left side.

Local climate

North Hertfordshire District Council Offices sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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