Handscombs Ltd Ironmongers
HANDSCOMBS LTD IRONMONGERS, 11, BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101597
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Handscombs Ltd Ironmongers
- Statutory Address:
- HANDSCOMBS LTD IRONMONGERS, 11, BRIDGE STREET
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- Date:
- 1999-08-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/01059/14
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101597
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1962
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Oct-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Handscombs Ltd Ironmongers
- Statutory Address 1:
- HANDSCOMBS LTD IRONMONGERS, 11, BRIDGE 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:
- HANDSCOMBS LTD IRONMONGERS, 11, BRIDGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishop's Stortford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL4878121410
Details
1.
5253
TL 4821 SE
3/6
18.10.49
BRIDGE STREET
(North Side)
No 11 (Handscombs Ltd Ironmongers)
II
GV
2.
Early C17, restored pargetted front, old red tile roof. Two storeys. Ground floor
has good early C19 double projecting shop front, 40 panes each side. Double central
door with lozenge "chinoiserie" panes. Three first floor sash windows and one modern
oriel. Four hipped roofs to street. Modern shop front on east side ground floor.
Interior. Exposed ceiling timber beams behind old shop front. Plaster ceiling with
Bishop of London motifs behind modern shop front. Large amount of exposed wall and
ceiling timbers and some repositioned contemporary oak panelling on first floor.
No 11 continues on west in an early/mid C19 painted brick (formerly No 9). Three
storeys, one window elevation with hipped slate roof. Double-hung first floor and
single second floor sash windows.
Listing NGR: TL4878121410
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160894
- 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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