The Market House
61, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083558
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Market House
- Statutory Address:
- 61, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083558
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Market House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 61, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE MARKET HOUSE, 99, AKEMAN 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:
- 61, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE MARKET HOUSE, 99, AKEMAN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tring
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 92338 11368
Details
TRING AKEMAN STREET SP 9211 (West side) 11/45 No. 99 - (The Market House) GV II Market house, now offices. 1898, by William Huckvale, built by public subscription on site presented by Lord Rothschild when former Market House in front of Church demolished. Open ground floor enclosed after 1910. Timber frame formerly open ground floor with oak posts on moulded stone bases, jettied half-timbered 1st floor with roughcast panels and steep red tile roof, central cupola and finial. Half-timbered infill to ground floor and doors to High Street. Lower 2-storeys part at S end with red brick gable chimney. Entrance and stair on W side of High Street frontage giving access to Council Chamber on 1st floor with large rectangular 6-light oriel window on that end, 6-light large transomed leaded window below gable in middle of E side. Includes No. 61 High Street. (Kelly(1914)250).
Listing NGR: SP9233811368
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 355682
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kellys Directory in Hertfordshire, (1914), 250
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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