27, WEST STREET
27, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268677
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 27, WEST STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 27, WEST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268677
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 27, WEST STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 27, 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.
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:
- 27, 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 32345 12305
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212SW WEST STREET
817-1/19/253 (South side)
12/04/73 No.27
GV II
House. C17 altered and extended c1800. Timber-framed,
plastered front right (west) flank wall end rear lean-to in
brown brick, Flemish bond, with some rendered and colourwashed
brick. Welsh slated roof with broad-eaves brown brick
chimneystacks left and right, with some clay ports.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, originally a 2-storey house, with a
central entry from street and 2 rooms; c1800 hall incorporated
into left-hand (east) sitting room, and rear lean-to with new
entrance hall added to give a double-depth plan. First floor
front has 3 flush-set 12-pane sash windows with architrave
surrounds, second floor 2 squat 6-pane sashes, left and right
ground floor with 3 flush-set 12-pane sashes with shallow
moulded cornices below continuous band at first-floor level.
INTERIOR: sitting room has mid C19 white marble fireplace with
cast-iron hob grate, some crown glass to sash windows of
front, 4 panelled oak doors to dining and sitting rooms. Rear
staircase with stick balusters and moulded handrail around
landing. First floor has chamfered and tongue longitudinal
beams in front bedrooms. Central staircase to second floor has
column on vase balusters, square newels and moulded handrails.
Exposed horizontal plate around perimeter wall 600mm
above-floor level. Cellar beneath front range brick walled and
brick floored with basement windows to front; recessed arched
shelving below chimneystack on east wall.
Home of William Archer (1754-1833), merchant, miller and
entrepreneur, manufacturer of linseed oil.
(Forrester H: Timber-framed buildings in Hertford and Ware:
Hitchin: 1964-: 24).
Listing NGR: TL3234512305
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461562
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Forrester, H, Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware, (1964), 24
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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