Mrs Howard Memorial Hall is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. Memorial hall. 4 related planning applications.
Mrs Howard Memorial Hall
- WRENN ID
- fossil-gable-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Memorial hall
- Address
- Mrs Howard Memorial Hall, Norton Way South, SG6 1NX
- OS grid reference
- TL 221 326
- Coordinates
- 51.97848, -0.22344
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mrs Howard Memorial Hall is a public building located on Norton Way South, built between 1905 and 1906 by architects B Parker and R Unwin. It is the first public building in the Garden City and serves as a memorial to Ebenezer Howard's first wife. The design is a smaller version of Edgar Wood's Church of Christ Scientist in Manchester. In 1907, an L-shaped wing was added to the north-east.
The hall is two storeys tall with a symmetrical entrance front featuring an eclectic style. It has projecting gabled bays that flank a higher central range, topped with hipped tiled roofs and free Tudor brick chimney shafts. The walls are roughcast, and the gabled bays are partly tile-hung. A five-light central dormer window is positioned below the eaves of the central range, and there are three plain windows with loops above in the gables of the projecting bays. The entrance features a moulded brick surround and a segmental arched doorway with double doors.
Inside, the hall has an exposed Queen Post roof and an inglenook with an elliptical brick arch. The extendable classroom or clubroom, which includes a diagonally set platform, is an early example of multi-use space in a public building.
Local climate
Mrs Howard Memorial Hall 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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- 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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