Howgills (Society of Friends Meeting House) is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. Meeting house.
Howgills (Society of Friends Meeting House)
- WRENN ID
- turning-newel-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Meeting house
- Address
- Howgills (Society of Friends Meeting House), 42, South View
- OS grid reference
- TL 219 319
- Coordinates
- 51.97262, -0.22675
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Howgills Society of Friends Meeting House is a building completed in 1907 by the architects Bennett and Bidwell. It serves as a public hall and is designed in a free-style manner characteristic of this architectural firm. The Meeting Room draws inspiration from "Briggflatts" in Yorkshire. The building is two storeys high with an irregular facade featuring three bays, including a central entrance bay that projects and is topped with a gable. It has a tiled roof with hips and gables, and tall brick chimney stacks with moulded caps, including one on the front facade that has weathered offsets. The walls are roughcast, and the windows are stone, mullioned casements with leaded lights and tile labels. The entrance is recessed and has a segmental arch with boarded double doors, and there is a plaque in Art Nouveau style located in the porch.
Local climate
Howgills (Society of Friends Meeting House) 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 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more 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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