Number 31 (Including Carriage Entrance Abutting on East)
NUMBER 31 (INCLUDING CARRIAGE ENTRANCE ABUTTING ON EAST), 31, HITCHIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175582
- Date first listed:
- 08-Nov-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Number 31 (Including Carriage Entrance Abutting on East)
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 31 (INCLUDING CARRIAGE ENTRANCE ABUTTING ON EAST), 31, HITCHIN STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175582
- Date first listed:
- 08-Nov-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Number 31 (Including Carriage Entrance Abutting on East)
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 31 (INCLUDING CARRIAGE ENTRANCE ABUTTING ON EAST), 31, HITCHIN 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:
- NUMBER 31 (INCLUDING CARRIAGE ENTRANCE ABUTTING ON EAST), 31, HITCHIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 24348 33804
Details
HITCH IN STREET 1. (South East Side) 5255 ----------------- No 51 (including carriage entrance abutting on TL 2433 NW 1/26 8.11.49. east.)
II GV
2. Late C18 red brick front to C16 or C17 house. Steeply pitched tiled roof behind parapet and cornice of dentil and moulded brickwork. 2 storeys, slight central projection with ground floor glazed door in fielded panelled reveal, surround of Doric pilasters, entablature and pediment. 2 wide Neo-Georgian shop windows either side. First floor 1:1:1 8asfi windows with glazing bars in reveals under flat arches. Narrow wing on left has exposed timber framework, ground floor carriageway, first floor oversailing on exposed corbels, with plaster infilling between closely spacers posts and flush 2 light lattice casement window. Steeply pitched old tiled roof with carved cornice. Gates of carriageway carved at top with initials S (for surname of owner) D E (for Christian names of owner and wife) and date 1632. RCHM p46.
Nos 1, 1B 3, 5, 7, 17, 19, 23, to 31, (odd), 31A, 33, 33A, 35 and 43 to 57 (odd) form a group.
Listing NGR: TL2434833804
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 161665
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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.
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