12, WEST STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268707
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1950
List Entry Name:: 12, WEST STREET
Statutory Address:: 12, WEST STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268707
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1950
List Entry Name:: 12, WEST STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 12, WEST STREET

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, WEST STREET

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 32362 12337

Details

HERTFORD

TL3212SW WEST STREET 817-1/19/244 (North side) 10/02/50 No.12

GV II

House. Mid C18, with mid C19 rear wing. Yellow brick, Flemish bond, with orange-red dressings, partly tuck-pointed. Rear wing of red brick, old tiled roof beyond parapet with stone coping. Tall red brick chimney at right (east) with band and orange clay pots, hipped slated roof to rear wing, which lies partly behind No.10 to east. 3-bay front with side entry, and tunnel at far left (west) giving access to rear garden; 4 bay rear facade partly overlaid at left (east) by rear wing. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement, with 2-storey rear wing. First floor has 3 nearly flush-set 12-pane sash windows with architrave surrounds under red brick rubbed flat arches, above which is plat band at second-floor level. Second floor with 3 squatter proportioned 12-pane sashes, with moulded red brick cornice above red brick rubbed flat arches. Ground floor has two 12-pane sashes, centre and right, with plat band above flat arches. Left-hand bay has 6 fielded panelled door with ogee traceried Gothick fanlight above, panelled reveals, panelled pilasters with cut profiled consoles supporting cornice hood. At far left is side door to tunnel, 4 panels, architrave frame, with red rubbed brick flat arch above. Full height red brick quoins to jambs of all windows. Rear elevation in red brick, with segmental arched brick window heads; rear wing with C19 sashes, and French windows. Single storey timber-framed wash-house with pantiled roof, with fireplace and pump inside. INTERIOR: dining Room, ground floor rear with C18 moulded wood cornice, triple sash windows with shutters, panelled dado; Drawing Room in rear wing has mid C19 plaster cornice with scotia moulding, bead, Acanthus flower cove and roll, scroll with honeysuckle band, white marble fire surround with Tuscan pilasters. Dogleg plan newel staircase, closed string, with stick balusters and moulded handrail; back stair of similar construction, with access door 2 panel, raised and fielded. First floor has raised and fielded 4-panel doors, landing and 2 rooms with moulded wood cornices, east front bedroom with C19 plaster cornice, shutter boxes with panelling below, C19 white marble fire surround with cast-iron grate. Attics have 2 panel doors with H-hinges in broad architrave frames; moulded wood cornice in large front attic. Basement with dogleg stair access, front room with kitchen

range. 3 cellars below C19 rear wing with red brick floors. Roof has some riven rafters with thin ridge board. Collars support side purlins. (Forrester H: Timber-framed buildings in Hertford and Ware: Hitchin: 1964-: 26).

Listing NGR: TL3237012342

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Legacy System number:: 461553
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Forrester, H , Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware, (1964), 26

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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.