6A AND 8, THE WASH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268693
Date first listed:: 11-Apr-1973
List Entry Name:: 6A AND 8, THE WASH
Statutory Address:: 6A AND 8, THE WASH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268693
Date first listed:: 11-Apr-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 08-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: 6A AND 8, THE WASH
Statutory Address 1:: 6A AND 8, THE WASH

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:: 6A AND 8, THE WASH

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 32557 12618

Details

HERTFORD

TL3212NE THE WASH 817-1/17/232 (East side) 12/04/73 Nos.6A AND 8 (Formerly Listed as: THE WASH No.8)

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House, now shop with offices above (first and second floors numbered 6A and accessible through No.6 adjoining). Late C16, altered C18 and C19. Plastered Welsh slated gambrel roof, with casement windows to front gable, jettied slightly forward of facade. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attics, gable end faces street. First floor with flush timber south window with glazing bars, apparently replacing 3-light mullion and transom casement. Second floor with slightly recessed timber sash window with glazing bars, ground floor with plain C20 timber shopfront with plate glass windows, set in front of jetty with bressumer visible within. INTERIOR: much altered, but post and beam, with mortices for missing brace on first floor suggests a late C16 structure of 2 bays (possibly a cross wing), extended rearwards and heightened C18 when gambrel formed. (Forrester H: Timber-framed buildings in Hertford and Ware: Hitchin: 1964-: 24).

Listing NGR: TL3255712618

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Legacy System number:: 461534
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Forrester, H , Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware, (1964), 24

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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.