12,14 AND 16, WATER LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268702
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1950
List Entry Name:: 12,14 AND 16, WATER LANE
Statutory Address:: 12,14 AND 16, WATER LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268702
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1950
List Entry Name:: 12,14 AND 16, WATER LANE
Statutory Address 1:: 12,14 AND 16, WATER LANE

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:: 12,14 AND 16, 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 32409 12417

Details

HERTFORD

TL3212SW WATER LANE, Hertford Castle 817-1/19/315 (East side) 10/02/50 Nos.12, 14 AND 16

GV II

Terrace of 3 dwellings, possibly subdivided from garden building, and terminates north end of block of more utilitarian cottages, formerly stable buildings, Nos 4 to 10 Water Lane (qqv). Late C18. Red brick, Flemish bond, with stucco dressings and hipped coursed Welsh slated roof, with lead roll hips, on north side, other faces old tiled. Tall red brick chimneystack on right (west) rear flank. EXTERIOR: 5-bay elevation, with centre 3 slightly recessed, Gothick style to match the refurbished gate house and south wing of Hertford Castle. First floor has three 2-light coupled small-paned casements with moulded lancet heads and surrounds, with glazed stucco quatrefoils either side of central window, narrow stucco band at first-floor level. Ground floor has 2 tall coupled lancet headed casements, left and right of central door, half-glazed with 2 recessed lower panels, and traceried middle and upper lights, with Tudor arched head, recessed in moulded stucco surround with recessed spandrel panels and projecting flat dripmould. Projecting ends each have similar doors with lancet-headed sidelights, all under flat dripmould. East flank elevation has 6-pane sash on first floor, and further 3-light window. Irregular fenestration including C20 casement window in central infilled door opening. INTERIOR: of No.12 has ground floor oval room, with shallow domed ceiling, and alcoves in 3 corners. This, together with the design of the principal elevation indicates a status above the stables and ancillary buildings which occupied the remainder of the block. HISTORICAL NOTE: the stables and adjoining cottages were built for 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, architects John Snellgrove Associates. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Hertfordshire: Harmondsworth: 1977-: 191; Hertfordshire Countryside: Davies AG: From Royal Palace to Council Offices: Letchworth: 1946-1971: 34-8; Hertfordshire Countryside: Jones LFR: In the grounds of Hertford Castle: Letchworth: 1946-1972: 46-7).

Listing NGR: TL3240912417

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 461548
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 191
'Hertfordshire Countryside' in Hertfordshire Countryside, (1946-1971), 34-38
'Hertfordshire Countryside' in Hertfordshire Countryside, (1946-1972), 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.