H H DICKMAN, CHEMISTS

H H DICKMAN, CHEMISTS, 224, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1096122
Date first listed:: 09-May-2003
List Entry Name:: H H DICKMAN, CHEMISTS
Statutory Address:: H H DICKMAN, CHEMISTS, 224, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1096122
Date first listed:: 09-May-2003
List Entry Name:: H H DICKMAN, CHEMISTS
Statutory Address 1:: H H DICKMAN, CHEMISTS, 224, HIGH STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: H H DICKMAN, CHEMISTS, 224, HIGH 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 99060 07899

Details

BERKHAMSTED

814/0/10024 HIGH STREET 09-MAY-03 224 H H Dickman, Chemists

II

House with chemists at ground floor. Late-C19 house converted to chemist use in 1914 with shop front and fittings from 1920. Brick with glazed in wood frame shop front. Ground floor shop with offices to rear and residential and secondary shop accommodation at upper levels. EXTERIOR: Advanced shop front with gilded fascia that reads 'CHEMIST H.H. DICKMAN OPTICIANS'. Slender colonnette mullions. To left, 3 bays, that to centre advanced and with curved edges, over shallow marble plinth. To right, recessed entrance bay with shallow glazed cabinets to side and deep glazed display cabinet to rear. Glazed door to left with diamond mullion overlight. Continuous band of glazed overlights with diamond glazing bars to each bay, paired over entrance. INTERIOR: Ground floor with shop to front with small raised room at right, and raised dispensing department to the rear. Front display window with glazed doors into shop. Fitted glazed cabinets to right wall, shelving to left wall with cabinets below that have multiple small drawers labelled to identify drugs and chemicals. Free-standing fitting glazed mahogany framed cabinets form display counters. To rear, tall shelving unit with mirrored back and raised sign that reads 'DISPENSING DEPARTMENT.' Full height staircase and tiled floors. Primary interest is the ground floor shop. SOURCES: For context, Kathryn Morrison 'English Shops and Shopping: An Architectural History'. Yale University Press, forthcoming 2003.

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Legacy System number:: 490088
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.