51, MARLOWES
51, MARLOWES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078078
- Date first listed:
- 17-Feb-1977
- List Entry Name:
- 51, MARLOWES
- Statutory Address:
- 51, MARLOWES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078078
- Date first listed:
- 17-Feb-1977
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Jul-2010
- List Entry Name:
- 51, MARLOWES
- Statutory Address 1:
- 51, MARLOWES
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 51, MARLOWES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 05546 07345
Details
894/1/21
17-FEB-77
HEMEL HEMPSTEAD
MARLOWES
51
(Formerly listed as:
MARLOWES 45)
II
The building was formerly a house, now a shop dating from c1741, remodelled in the early C19 and with a C20 ground floor extension.
MATERIALS
The main materials are red brick exposed to the rear elevation with stucco to the principal elevation. The roof is covered with tiles.
PLAN
The building has a square plan with a pair of semi-circular bow windows to the principal elevation.
EXTERIOR
The building has three storeys and two full height bows and a hipped roof behind a low parapet. The building has 3:1:3 sash windows with glazing bars in the reveals. At first floor the bow windows have bracketed sills, surrounds, friezes and cornices. At ground floor there is a central doorway with an open pediment on Corinthian attached columns. There is a single storey C20 Neo-Georgian style projecting shop front to the right and two-storey wing to the left which is slightly recessed. Interior not inspected.
HISTORY
Hemel Hempstead lies approximately 30 miles north-west of London, and while a settlement has existed there since C8, what is today known as old Hemel Hempstead has since been subsumed by the New Town's redevelopment programme of the early post-war years. The town was granted a charter by Henry VIII in 1539, and by virtue of its strategic location on the shortest route between London and the Midlands, has played a significant role in terms of transport and communications. It is probably for this reason that Hemel Hempstead suffered such extensive bomb damage during World War II and had to be re-planned in the mid C20.
Sources:
Page, W, A History of the County of Hertfordshire, Vol 2, (1908)
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION
No 51 Marlowes, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Historic: This building, dating from the mid C18, has a substantial proportion of its original historic fabric surviving.
* Architectural: The building, having been remodelled in the early C19, is an evolved structure, with features such as the twin bow windows, indicative of its different stages of development and representative of architecture that is at the forefront for the period, thus adding to its architectural distinctiveness and special interest.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 355614
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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