5-8, CASTLE STREET
5-8, CASTLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078126
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 5-8, CASTLE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 5-8, CASTLE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078126
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 5-8, CASTLE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 5-8, CASTLE 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.
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:
- 5-8, CASTLE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Berkhamsted
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 99411 07758
Details
1. 839 CASTLE STREET (East Side) No+ 5 to 8 (consec) SP 9907 NW 1/110
II GV
Early to mid C19. Plum coloured brick, red brick dressings, Welsh slated roof. 2 storeys, brick and bracketed cornice, 5 1st floor Doric pilasters 9 sashes with glazing bars in reveals, some with louvred shutters, ground floor keystones. Elliptically arched carriageway on right with 2 fold 12 fielded panelled door. On left earlier Cl9 shop window with glazing bars, slim pilasters, frieze and cornice carried over door and oblong fanlight in panelled reveal with surround of reeded pilasters, Nos 5, 6 and 7 have similar doorways with segmental curve to pilasters. In centre and on left elliptically arched passage entries with imposts and keystones.
Nos 1 to 9 (consec) 11, 12 and 12A form a group.
Listing NGR: SP9941107758
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 355431
- 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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