Waxhouse Gate
WAXHOUSE GATE, HIGH STREET
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1103130
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1950
- Statutory Address:
- WAXHOUSE GATE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1103130
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1950
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAXHOUSE GATE, HIGH STREET
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)
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