Halifax Building Society
HALIFAX BUILDING SOCIETY, MARKET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102406
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Halifax Building Society
- Statutory Address:
- HALIFAX BUILDING SOCIETY, MARKET STREET
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- Date:
- 1999-09-05
- Reference:
- IOE01/01036/18
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102406
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Halifax Building Society
- Statutory Address 1:
- HALIFAX BUILDING SOCIETY, MARKET 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:
- HALIFAX BUILDING SOCIETY, MARKET 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:
- TL 48720 21368
Details
1. 5253 MARKET STREET
Halifax Building Society (formerly listed as Corn Exchange under Market Square) TL 4821 SE:3/54 18.10.49
II
2. 1828 by L Vulliamy. Greek Revival. Painted Roman cement. Three storeys, consisting of 2-storey centre block on larger single storey podium. Main block, rectangular plan on east-west axis. Two-storey Ionic porticoes on north and east side and continuous entablature. North portico of 4 columns and 2 square end pilasters, sash windows within and central pedimented door porch with acroteria. Tympanum has reclining figures and clock. Flanking single first floor sash windows. East portico of 2 columns in antis. Iron rail balcony. South front has central pedimented projection with pilasters and first and second floor sash windows and flanking single first floor sash windows. West elevation has similar projection but 3 bay. Podium has banded rustication on south with segmental headed windows and pedimented corner door. A late C19 alteration of earlier base. North podium, modern restoration with carved balcony on cast iron palmette columns. Modern railings. Important focal point in town centre. (Pevsner 2nd Ed Rev (1977) 102).
Listing NGR: TL4872021368
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160946
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 102
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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