18, THE WASH
18, THE WASH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268695
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 18, THE WASH
- Statutory Address:
- 18, THE WASH
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- Date:
- 2001-06-18
- Reference:
- IOE01/03002/15
- Rights:
- © Mr A. Gude. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268695
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 18, THE WASH
- Statutory Address 1:
- 18, THE WASH
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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:
- 18, 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 32537 12641
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212NE THE WASH
817-1/17/234 (East side)
No.18
GV II
Former seedsmans' retail department and offices, now shop with
offices above. c1860, altered late 1920s. Stucco over yellow
stock brick, hipped Welsh slated roof, with yellow brick stack
with oversailing courses.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Italianate style with 3 windows. First
and second floors have wooden sashes with central glazing
bars, recessed in moulded stucco architrave surrounds, with
aprons below second-floor windows. Rusticated quoins at left
and right. Large blank panel with moulded frame in spandrel
between first and second-floor windows. Ground floor has
shopfront, with Tuscan pilasters left and right, and 2
intermediate antae subdividing 3 bays. Arcaded timber shop
windows left and right above panelled stallriser; 3/4 glazed
timber door with diagonal bars forming two crosses, fixed
sidelights and fanlight subdivided into 7 narrow panes.
Triglyphs at left and right of main fascia, moulded cornice
above, with breaks at ends.
Yellow brick east elevation faces Maidenhead Yard has 3
windows first floor, and 4 windows second floor, with moulded
architrave surrounds and aprons. Recessed entrance door ground
floor.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: built as the retail departmental offices for
McMullens' seed warehouse in Maidenhead Yard (qv), this
building had its previously yellow brick front remodelled with
stucco and a new shopfront after the realigned Mill Bridge was
created in 1927.
(Green L: Hertford's Past in pictures: Ware: 1993-: 18).
Listing NGR: TL3253712641
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461536
- 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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