23 AND 25, RAILWAY STREET
23 AND 25, RAILWAY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268753
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 23 AND 25, RAILWAY STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 23 AND 25, RAILWAY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268753
- Date first listed:
- 08-Dec-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 23 AND 25, RAILWAY STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 23 AND 25, 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.
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:
- 23 AND 25, 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 32718 12686
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212NE RAILWAY STREET
817-1/17/185 (North side)
08/12/72 Nos.23 AND 25
GV II
House, now with ground floor shop. C17, altered C19, with
later C20 alterations. Timber-framed, stuccoed, underbuilt in
colourwashed brick on ground floor, rear offshoot
pebbledashed. Old tiled roofs. 2 bay structure, extended later
to right (east) by a third bay.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. First floor has 3 flush-set
C19 sash windows, with divided glazing, moulded architrave
surrounds and outer stucco projecting ornamental heads above.
Left-hand (west) flank elevation has flush-set sash window,
subdivided into 6 tall panes, at left, and single small 6-pane
sash with stucco outer surround at left of outshoot. Ground
floor has full width mid C20 shopfront, with plate glass
windows, splayed corner, below overhang with continuous fascia
along main and left flank elevations, with blind boxes above.
C20 flush door with glazed upper panel, with stucco surround
above deep stucco plinth, at left of outshoot.
Roof hipped gambrel over main block, above low parapet with
moulded stucco band and cornice. 2 box casement dormers in
front slope; low pitched over right extension, double-gabled
over rear outshoot, 2 red brick chimneystacks at rear with
orange clay pots.
INTERIOR: comprehensively remodelled and opened out on ground
floor from 1920s onwards; no features of special note now
visible.
Listing NGR: TL3271812686
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461468
- 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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