47, Bancroft is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1974. House.

47, Bancroft

WRENN ID
final-newel-yew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 June 1974
Type
House
OS grid reference
TL 185 295
Coordinates
51.95211, -0.27645
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 47 Bancroft is an early 19th-century building constructed of red brick with a hipped tiled roof. It has two storeys and cellars. The first floor features two sash windows, while the ground floor has a canted bay window, all of which include glazing bars. The entrance has a six flush panelled door with an oblong fanlight above. No. 47, along with Nos. 45, 46, and 46A, forms a group of buildings.

Local climate

47, 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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