FORMER CASTLE INN

FORMER CASTLE INN, CASTLE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1249641
Date first listed:: 18-Jul-1990
List Entry Name:: FORMER CASTLE INN
Statutory Address:: FORMER CASTLE INN, CASTLE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1249641
Date first listed:: 18-Jul-1990
List Entry Name:: FORMER CASTLE INN
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER CASTLE INN, CASTLE STREET
Statutory Address 2:: FORMER CASTLE INN, MILL STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: FORMER CASTLE INN, CASTLE STREET
Statutory Address:: FORMER CASTLE INN, MILL STREET

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: Dacorum (District Authority)
Parish:: Berkhamsted
National Grid Reference:: SP 99469 08051

Details

SP 90 NE MILL STREET and Castle Street (West side) 7/109 Former Castle Inn II

Former Inn. C1840, with later C19 addition. Yellow stock brick in Flemish bond, addition with rendered ground floor and plum-coloured brick to rear. Welsh slate roofs. 2 storeys, 3 x 2 bays, lower addition of 2 storeys with basement and 2 bays, the corner bay canted at front. Main range: symmetrical elevation. Stuccoed plinth. Central door, in stuccoed architrave, having glazed upper half over 2 panels and overlight with 6 round-ended panels; flanking 12-pane sashes (left one horned, right one boarded up) in reveals and with stuccoed, keyed, lintels. 1st floor: round-arched sign recess with keyed architrave flanked by full-height unhorned 12-pane sashes with stuccoed, keyed, lintels. The windows give access to balcony which has stone pavement supported by 4 slender iron columns (one fallen and one replaced) with moulded bases and caps; decorative cast-iron balusters to railing. Oversailing hipped roof; stacks removed. Addition: ground floor has recessed panels with dripmoulds, and cornice; narrow right bay has a 4-pane sash to each floor. Rear: main range has 2 segmental-arched windows to ground floor and one above, to right, all with unhorned 12-pane sashes (that on left removed); small gabled addition not of special interest. Addition has round-arched basement openings, a 4-pane sash to ground floor left, and a former 2-pane sash over; C20 pent-roofed addition on right not of special interest. Right return (main range): windows have gauged bright-yellow brick arches, those on ground floor boarded up, those on 1st floor with 12-pane sashes. Interior not inspected. Unoccupied and in state of disrepair at time of inspection.

Listing NGR: SP9946908051

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Legacy System number:: 355495
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.