11 AND 12, STATION APPROACH, 251, 253 AND 255, WATLING STREET

11 AND 12, STATION APPROACH

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1103626
Date first listed:
23-Feb-1972
List Entry Name:
11 AND 12, STATION APPROACH, 251, 253 AND 255, WATLING STREET
Statutory Address:
11 AND 12, STATION APPROACH
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1103626
Date first listed:
23-Feb-1972
Date of most recent amendment:
12-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:
11 AND 12, STATION APPROACH, 251, 253 AND 255, WATLING STREET
Statutory Address 1:
11 AND 12, STATION APPROACH
Statutory Address 2:
251, 253 AND 255, WATLING STREET

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
11 AND 12, STATION APPROACH
Statutory Address:
251, 253 AND 255, WATLING STREET

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

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
Hertsmere (District Authority)
Parish:
Aldenham
National Grid Reference:
TQ 16403 99766

Details

TQ 19 NE ALDENHAM WATLING STREET (East side) Radlett

7/54 Nos. 251, 253, and 255 23.2.72 (formerly listed as Nos. 11 and 12 Station Approach and Nos 253 and 255 Watling, Street) GV II

Two blocks, formerly 3 houses and 2 houses, now offices. '1852 GRANSBY' in porches, altered C20. Knapped flint with brick dressings. Decorative tiled roofs. Symmetrical front. 2 storeys, 4 windows. Central entrance and flanking windows project forward under 2 gables. Porch: 4 centred arched gauged brick head to entrance, chamfered surround, diagonally set brick course below gable. 3-light cast iron casements with Gothic glazing, slightly cambered heads, drip moulds. Diagonally set brick courses at eaves and in gables. Outer bays similar, ground floor right has C20 shopfront and entrance. 4 stacks with tall, paired, diagonally set shafts. Right return to Station Approach. Central entrance porch, similar but broader. Flanking windows as at front. 2 small gables with decorative brickwork, additional bay set back to right. Left gable end: decorative brickwork, entrance towards rear. From right return a link to No. 12 Station Approach. Originally a symmetrical pair, similar in details. Original ground floor now below road level but new raised ground floor openings inserted. Original porch blocked. Entrance in addition to right front with steeply pitched roof. Interior not inspected. Includes Nos. 11 and 12 Station Approach.

Listing NGR: TQ1640399766

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
164102
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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