14 AND 16, THE PARADE

14 AND 16, THE PARADE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1175704
Date first listed:
07-Jan-1983
List Entry Name:
14 AND 16, THE PARADE
Statutory Address:
14 AND 16, THE PARADE
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Date:
2004-10-10
Reference:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1175704
Date first listed:
07-Jan-1983
List Entry Name:
14 AND 16, THE PARADE
Statutory Address 1:
14 AND 16, THE PARADE

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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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:
14 AND 16, THE PARADE

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

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
Watford (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 10870 96558

Details

1. 5259 THE PARADE (west side)

Nos 14 and 16 TQ 1096 NE 7/38

II

2. Circa 1500 timber-framed house of 3 bays, extended by one bay over carriage entrance in late C16. Externally altered. Two storey, stuccoed with plain tile roof. Three projecting flat-topped, 3-sided windows to 1st floor. Modern ground floor shop fronts and through carriageway to left. To rear C18 brick range, 2-storey with hipped plain tile roof and windows in segment arched surrounds. Within, a presumed 2 bay upper hall with chamfered tie-beam and arch braces. Queen strut truss with collar. Arch wind braces. North end-bay originally 2-storey. Late C16 south end has Queen strut collar-and-tie-beam truss. Brick chimney stack with large lintel at 1st floor, demolished above roof level.

S Castle: Timber-framed buildings in Watford 1977 pp. 11-12.

Listing NGR: TQ1087096558

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Legacy System number:
158208
Legacy System:
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Sources

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Castle, S, Timber Framed Buildings in Watford, (1977), 11-12

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

Ordnance survey map of 14 AND 16, THE PARADE

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