Former Library Now Part of North Hertfordshire District Council Offices is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1974. Former library.
Former Library Now Part of North Hertfordshire District Council Offices
- WRENN ID
- narrow-marble-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1974
- Type
- Former library
- Address
- Former Library Now Part of North Hertfordshire District Council Offices, Brand Street
- OS grid reference
- TL 183 292
- Coordinates
- 51.94899, -0.27926
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former library, now part of the North Hertfordshire District Council offices, was built in 1860. It features a Neoclassical temple design with a stucco exterior and a pedimented roof covered in Welsh slate. The building is a single storey and includes two Doric pilasters and two tall sash windows. There is a closed central porch supported by Doric pilasters, and to the right, there are massive cast iron spearhead railings.
Local climate
Former Library Now Part of 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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