17, WEST STREET

17, WEST STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1268672
Date first listed:
12-Apr-1973
List Entry Name:
17, WEST STREET
Statutory Address:
17, WEST STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1268672
Date first listed:
12-Apr-1973
List Entry Name:
17, WEST STREET
Statutory Address 1:
17, WEST 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.

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
17, WEST STREET

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

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Hertford
National Grid Reference:
TL 32376 12325

Details

HERTFORD

TL3212SW WEST STREET
817-1/19/248 (South side)
12/04/73 No.17

GV II

House. Early C17 with C19 rear range, altered C19 and C20.
Timber-framed with colourwashed pebbledashed first floor and
ground floor underbuilt in colourwashed brick, English bond,
rear range yellow stock brick in Flemish Bond. Old tiled roof
over front; hipped Welsh slated roof over rear range.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attics and basement. First floor has 2
flush-set multi-pane C20 casement windows with dripmoulding at
first-floor level. Ground floor has C20 3-light casement
window, subdivided horizontally by transoms, at right, central
C20 multi-panel door in late C17 moulded architrave frame
above 2 painted stone steps. Segmental relieving arch to
blocked basement window at right just above pavement level. At
left carriageway with twin leaf battened doors with
trellis-infilled ventilation panels at top.
Roof with two C20 flush casement dormers with hipped tiled
roofs.
Rear colourwashed brick and weatherboarded with studded door
with panels and segmental head, dated '1654'. Low 2-storey
rear range of yellow brick with Welsh slated hipped roof, with
9-pane sash windows on first floor, altered fenestration
elsewhere, building shared with No.15 (qv).
INTERIOR: not inspected.


Listing NGR: TL3237612325

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
461557
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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