18-20, GEORGE STREET

18-20, GEORGE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1103123
Date first listed:
08-May-1950
List Entry Name:
18-20, GEORGE STREET
Statutory Address:
18-20, GEORGE STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1103123
Date first listed:
08-May-1950
List Entry Name:
18-20, GEORGE STREET
Statutory Address 1:
18-20, GEORGE 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
18-20, GEORGE STREET

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

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
St. Albans (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TL 14500 07190

Details

GEORGE STREET 1. (North Side) 1582 Nos 18 to 20 (consec)

TL 1407 SE 9/64 8.5.50.

II GV

2. No 18: Early C16, timber framed house. 2 storeys, one window. Overhanging 1st floor faced with mock studding and roughcast. C18 1st floor sash window with glazing bars in flush, box frame. Plaque: "In monastic times this site was occupied by the Guest House of the Abbey. Anno 1545 The inn, "Le Tabard." Anno 1610 the inn, "Antelope". Ground floor shop front of about 1800. Nos 19 and 20: Early C16 timber framed building. 2 storeys and attic, 3 windows. Overhanging, cement rendered 1st floor. High pitched, tiled roof with one square, and one gabled, dormer. C18 1st floor windows with slightly projecting box frames but later glazing. Earlier C19 shop fronts on ground floor.

Nos 18 to 28 (consec) form a group.

Listing NGR: TL1450007190

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
163299
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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