10 AND 12, RAILWAY STREET

10 AND 12, RAILWAY STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1268752
Date first listed:
12-Apr-1973
List Entry Name:
10 AND 12, RAILWAY STREET
Statutory Address:
10 AND 12, RAILWAY STREET
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1268752
Date first listed:
12-Apr-1973
List Entry Name:
10 AND 12, RAILWAY STREET
Statutory Address 1:
10 AND 12, RAILWAY STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
10 AND 12, RAILWAY 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 32707 12653

Details

HERTFORD

TL3212NE RAILWAY STREET
817-1/17/184 (South side)
12/04/73 Nos.10 AND 12

GV II

Houses with ground floor shops. Early/mid C19, the shops a
possible later alteration. Yellow brick, laid to Flemish bond,
with stucco dressings, Welsh slated roof over bracketed eaves.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. First and second floors have 2 widely
spaced triple sash windows, 4:12:4-pane, recessed in reveals
under rubbed brick flat arches, with stucco sills; brick
pilasters at ends with stucco band capitals. Ground floor has
C19 shopfront at left, with plate glass closed window having 4
ventilating hoppers above, and with early C20 brown glazed
brick stallriser, inner pilaster surround, and on left glazed
door with margin-glazed fanlight above. Outer and central
brick pilasters with stucco impost bands, now colourwashed,
with entablatures above containing fascias of shopfronts, with
moulded stucco cornice, which breaks forward above pilasters.
Right-hand shopfront early C20, with moulded timber-frame to
plate glass window.
INTERIOR: crosswall construction with substantial timber beams
appears to indicate ground floors have always been
unsubdivided, simple newel stairs towards rear, with plainly
finished rooms above; brick lined cellars.
Together with Nos 6 & 8 Railway Street adjoining (qv) this
development reflects the growing importance of shops in mid
C19 Hertford.





Listing NGR: TL3270712653

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
461467
Legacy System:
LBS

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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.

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