121, Bancroft is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 April 1951. A C18 Residential. 5 related planning applications.
121, Bancroft
- WRENN ID
- inner-moat-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 April 1951
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- 121, Bancroft, SG5 1LS
- OS grid reference
- TL 185 292
- Coordinates
- 51.94892, -0.27714
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 121 Bancroft is a late 18th-century building constructed of red brick and stands three storeys tall, featuring an old tiled roof behind a parapet. The facade includes three sash windows, with the outer ones on the first floor being three-light, while the second floor has two-light semi-circular windows. Modern shop windows have replaced the original Venetian windows that flanked a central eight-panel door with a fanlight above.
Local climate
121, 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 — 5 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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