27a and 28, Bancroft is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1974. A C19 Shop.
27a and 28, Bancroft
- WRENN ID
- dark-forge-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1974
- Type
- Shop
- OS grid reference
- TL 185 294
- Coordinates
- 51.95074, -0.2769
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
27A and 28 Bancroft are 19th-century buildings with a front made of whitewashed roughcast. They feature an old tiled roof with decorative bargeboards on two gables and stand two storeys tall. The shop windows are designed in the Georgian style, and on the first floor, there is a pair of flush 19th-century sash windows. A garage door is located on the right side of the building. Nos 21 to 28 Bancroft form a group.
Local climate
27a and 28, 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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