Halford House

HALFORD HOUSE, 9, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1102099
Date first listed:
08-Nov-1949
List Entry Name:
Halford House
Statutory Address:
HALFORD HOUSE, 9, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1102099
Date first listed:
08-Nov-1949
List Entry Name:
Halford House
Statutory Address 1:
HALFORD HOUSE, 9, 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.

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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:
HALFORD HOUSE, 9, HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TL 24514 33870

Details

HIGH STREET 1. (North East Side) 5255 ----------------- No 9 (Halford House) TL 2433 NE 2/8 8.ll.9.

II* GV

2. C18 house of deep red brick dressed with lighter red. Main block with slightly recessed wing on left, 1:5 sash windows with glazing bars under flat arches. 3 storeys, first floor stucco band serves as pediment for 4 brick pilasters with carved Corinthian capitals, painted (?stone) beneath stone entablature with eaves level modillioned anddenticulated cornice. Panelled parapet masks roof. Four stone steps up to 6 fielded panelled doer and rectangular fanlight with diagonal glazing bars in shallow reveal, architrave surround, Doric pilasters, entablature with triglyphs, segmental pediment. Second floor central window has stone architrave surround with taller keystone. First floor central window has architrave surround, pediment on consoles. Ground and first floor side pairs of windows have triple keystones. Brick plinth with 4 small cellar windows.

Nos 1 to 11 (odd) 15, 19, 21, outbuilding east of No 21, 23, 23A, 25, 29 33, 35A, 37, 37B, 41A, 41B, 41, 43, 45, and 53 to 63 (odd) form a group.

Listing NGR: TL2451433870

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
161629
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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