38-40, Bancroft is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1974. House. 1 related planning application.
38-40, Bancroft
- WRENN ID
- upper-copper-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- 38-40, Bancroft, SG5 1LA
- OS grid reference
- TL 185 295
- Coordinates
- 51.95161, -0.2766
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
38-40 Bancroft is a 17th to 18th century plastered house with two storeys and a steep tiled roof, featuring a cross-gable at the northern end above a carriageway. The ground floor has been completely altered with modern shop fittings, but it still shows that the upper floor originally had a significant overhang. The upper floor retains basket-work gargetting and a plain plaster roundel in the cross-gable that displays the date '1726'. Three windows on the upper floor have been completely modernized. The carriageway is located under the gable.
Local climate
38-40, Bancroft sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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