75 AND 77, HIGH STREET, 79 AND 79A, HIGH STREET

75 AND 77, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1078092
Date first listed:
18-Jun-1948
List Entry Name:
75 AND 77, HIGH STREET, 79 AND 79A, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
75 AND 77, HIGH STREET
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1078092
Date first listed:
18-Jun-1948
Date of most recent amendment:
17-Feb-1977
List Entry Name:
75 AND 77, HIGH STREET, 79 AND 79A, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:
75 AND 77, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 2:
79 AND 79A, HIGH STREET

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
75 AND 77, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
79 AND 79A, HIGH STREET

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 05520 07924

Details

HIGH STREET 1. 5252 (East Side) 18 6 48. Nos 75 and 77 20.12.67. Nos 79 and 79A (Formerly listed as No 79) TL 0507 1/10

II GV 2 C16 and C17. Timber frame, partly plastered, old tiled roofs. 2 storeys and attics, 2 gabled dormers. 3 modern semi-circular bowed shop windows. lst floor casement and sash windows Cart way on left under taller structure. Pentice tiled roofs over shop windows. Nos 75 and 77 were fine Mermaid Inn until 1789.

Nos 57 and 83 (odd) and No 63A and 79A form a group.

Listing NGR: TL0552007924

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
355543
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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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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