40-46, WEST STREET
40-46, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268682
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 40-46, WEST STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 40-46, WEST STREET
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268682
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 40-46, WEST STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 40-46, 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:
- 40-46, 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 32276 12280
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212SW WEST STREET
817-1/19/258 (North side)
Nos.40-46 (Even)
GV II
Terrace of 4 houses. Mid C19. Yellow-brown stock brick,
Flemish Bond, Welsh slated roof, 3 brick chimneystacks with
band and cream terracotta pots with cowl tops.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 6-bay front. First floor has 4 recessed
sash windows, with 6 pane divided glazing, beneath segmentally
cambered rubbed brick flat arches, with 2 smaller intermediate
sashes, above ground floor doors of Nos 42 & 44. 4 windows on
second floor - 2 casements at left replacing shallow 6-pane
sashes retained in 2 right-hand openings - heads tucked hard
against eaves soffit. Ground floor has 4 large 6-pane sashes;
doors to Nos 40 & 46 at extreme right and left, 6-panel
recessed in stucco surrounds with curved reveals, and 1 stone
step; doors to Nos 42 & 44 set between pairs of windows,
recessed 4 panel with top 2 arched and all with flat
projecting band surrounds, with plain glazed fanlights, with
curved stucco reveals, and slim pilaster surrounds with fascia
and projecting cornice hood over, stone step, threshold
stuccoed on No.42. Yorkstone flags to side passageway floor to
entrance to No.40.
INTERIOR: simple C19 details, newel stairs with stick
balusters and moulded handrails, 4-panel doors with scotia
moulded architraves, C19 fire surrounds with shelves carried
on consoles; second-floor rooms of attic character with
restricted headroom. The 2 inner houses, Nos 42 & 44, are
slightly larger with a cranked party wall giving a second
first-floor front bedroom.
Listing NGR: TL3227612280
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461567
- 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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