WAXHOUSE GATE

WAXHOUSE GATE, HIGH STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1103130
Date first listed:: 08-May-1950
List Entry Name:: WAXHOUSE GATE
Statutory Address:: WAXHOUSE GATE, HIGH STREET

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Date:: 2004-10-29
Reference:: IOE01/13417/09
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1103130
Date first listed:: 08-May-1950
List Entry Name:: WAXHOUSE GATE
Statutory Address 1:: WAXHOUSE GATE, 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: WAXHOUSE GATE, HIGH 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 14635 07118

Details

HIGH STREET 1. (South Side) 1582 Waxhouse Gate

TL 1407 SE 9/92 8.5.50.

II

2. Originally providing access on the north from the town to the Abbey, the Gate survives as an open passage through the ground floor of No 15 High Street (qv). At each end is an C18 round, stone archway; but the springing stones of earlier pointed arches are visible beneath these. RCHM VCH NMR

Listing NGR: TL1463507118

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 163315
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1914)
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)

Legal

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