Booking Hall, Public Rooms, Offices and Footbridge at Letchworth Station is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. Train station. 6 related planning applications.

Booking Hall, Public Rooms, Offices and Footbridge at Letchworth Station

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Train station
Address
Booking Hall, Public Rooms, Offices and Footbridge at Letchworth Station, Station Place, SG6 3AN
OS grid reference
TL 217 327
Coordinates
51.9799, -0.2293
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Booking Hall, Public Rooms, Offices, and footbridge at Letchworth Station is a building from 1912, designed in the Arts and Crafts style. This former Great Northern Station replaced a temporary station built in 1904. It is one and a half storeys tall with a symmetrical front featuring a recessed entrance situated between splayed bays. The building has a tiled roof with red brick stacks that have moulded caps. The walls are made of red brick, adorned with an eaves cornice and a half-timbered gable with brick nogging at the south-west end. Above the entrance, there is a flat-topped, 6-light dormer. The recessed sash windows are topped with gauged segmental brick arches, and the entrance to the booking hall is segmental-arched and sheltered by a wooden canopy. There is an adjacent entrance porch to the office, which has an architraved doorway and a battlemented parapet. Bay windows flank the entrance, featuring a panelled parapet topped with decorative balls. The footbridge includes lifts designed as towers with pyramidical roofs. Inside, the two-storey booking hall is decorated in an Art Nouveau style, showcasing exposed timber work.

Local climate

Booking Hall, Public Rooms, Offices and Footbridge at Letchworth Station 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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