Garden City Corporation Offices is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. Office building. 1 related planning application.
Garden City Corporation Offices
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-mullion-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Office building
- Address
- Garden City Corporation Offices, Broadway, SG6 3XU
- OS grid reference
- TL 217 326
- Coordinates
- 51.97914, -0.22921
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Garden City Corporation Offices, built in 1913 by B Parker and R Unwin, are an office building designed in a classical style reminiscent of New England colonial architecture. This building is considered to have initiated the Neo-Georgian aesthetic in the town centre. The three-story structure features dormers and a symmetrical facade with slightly projecting end and central bays. The fenestration pattern is 1:4:1:4:1. The building is topped with a hipped, tiled roof, brick stacks, and a central wooden cupola containing a clock. The exterior is primarily brown brick with an eaves cornice and a second-floor sill string. The ground floor is rendered and incorporates Tuscan pilasters that support an entablature. An open loggia is located at the north end. The sash windows have gauged flat brick arches, exposed boxing, and glazing bars. A round-arched opening is present on the ground and first floors of the central bay.
Local climate
Garden City Corporation Offices 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- 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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