6A AND 8, THE WASH
6A AND 8, THE WASH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268693
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 6A AND 8, THE WASH
- Statutory Address:
- 6A AND 8, THE WASH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268693
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 6A AND 8, THE WASH
- Statutory Address 1:
- 6A AND 8, THE WASH
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:
- 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)
GV II
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461534
- 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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