6,8 AND 10, WATER LANE
6,8 AND 10, WATER LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268701
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 6,8 AND 10, WATER LANE
- Statutory Address:
- 6,8 AND 10, WATER LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268701
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 6,8 AND 10, WATER LANE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 6,8 AND 10, WATER LANE
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:
- 6,8 AND 10, WATER LANE
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 32420 12410
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212SW WATER LANE, Hertford Castle
817-1/19/314 (East side)
10/02/50 Nos.6, 8 AND 10
GV II
Terrace of cottages, formerly part of stabling and
outbuildings of Hertford Castle. Late C18, altered. Red brick,
Flemish bond, old tiled roofs, hipped at ends, above corbel
band and dentil header cornice. Red and yellow brick
chimneystacks, with projecting band, on ridge. Principal
(west) elevation faces the Hertford Relief Road, Gascoyne Way;
irregular 6 bay facade with single bay projections at left and
right.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. First floor has 1 flush-set 9-pane sash
window in projecting left bay, and 6, irregularly spaced, in
centre. Ground floor has broad rubbed brick arches in the
projecting end bays (now infilled), equivalent to those
accommodating paired doors on No.4, and were infilled when the
block was converted from stabling, probably at the time of
acquisition by Hertford Borough Council from the Gascoyne
Cecil (Salisbury) Estate in 1952. Ground floor now has 5
sashes, 1 under rebuilt segmental arch, 2 under rebuilt
soldier arches, and 2 under slightly cambered rubbed flat
arches. 3 half-glazed doors beneath C20 Welsh slated lean-to
hoods carried on gallows brackets.
Rear (east) elevation has 2 small wood casements and three
12-pane sashes on first floor and 4 C20 inserted 16-pane
sashes on ground floor.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the stables and adjoining cottages were built
by the Marquess of Downshire in conjunction with his
reconstruction of the Gate House. Together with the other
Water Lane cottages, conveyed to Hertfordshire Building
Preservation Trust in 1971, and refurbished, architect John
Snellgrove Associates.
(Hertfordshire Countryside: Davies AG: From Royal Palace to
Council Offices: Letchworth: 1946-1971: 36-8; Hertfordshire
Countryside: Jones LFR: In the grounds of Hertford Castle:
-1972: 46-7).
Listing NGR: TL3242012410
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461547
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hertfordshire Countryside in Hertfordshire Countryside, (1946-1971), 36-38
Hertfordshire Countryside in Hertfordshire Countryside, (1972), 46-47
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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