15, MARKET STREET
15, MARKET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176529
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 15, MARKET STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 15, MARKET STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176529
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 15, MARKET STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 15, MARKET 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:
- 15, MARKET STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishop's Stortford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 48769 21359
Details
1. 5253 MARKET STREET (East Side)
No 15 TL 4821 SE:3/101
II GV
2. C17 brick, remodelled mid/late C19 probably by G E Pritchett, extended in 1890 by G E Pritchett in same style, incorporating early C17 timber-framed house in Devoils Lane. Painted stucco in Italianate style, old tile and slate roofs. L-plan with single-storey extension in south corner. Three storeys. Parapetted over modillioned cornice. Round-headed sash windows in elaborate surrounds, those of first floor are single light with panelled pilasters and moulded architraves and keystones. Second floor windows are mainly 2-light in apron frames with pilasters and plain heads. Projecting chimney on south with sunken lancet panels at top. Single-storey canted bay on south with pilastered ground floor and parapet of cast iron railings between moulded pedestals. Similar single-storey extension on east which adjoins early C17 gable end. This is 2 1/2 storeys, slate roof, with round-headed, 2-light, ground and first floor windows. The property was remodelled as Bishops Stortford's first Head Post Office in 1890 and has important townscape value in Devoils Lane and Market Street.
Listing NGR: TL4876921359
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160947
- 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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