17, Bancroft is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 April 1951. House. 3 related planning applications.
17, Bancroft
- WRENN ID
- veiled-passage-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 April 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- 17, Bancroft, SG5 1JQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 184 293
- Coordinates
- 51.94979, -0.27763
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
17 Bancroft is a mid-18th century brick house that stands two storeys tall. It features moulded eaves beneath a steep tiled roof, which includes dormer windows. The ground floor has been altered with a prominent modern shop window, while the upper floor is adorned with five windows that have square rushes set in broad flush frames, each with slightly curved heads. This building is part of a group that includes Nos 12 to 17 Bancroft.
Local climate
17, Bancroft sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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