28 AND 30, RAILWAY STREET

28 AND 30, RAILWAY STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1268755
Date first listed:
12-Apr-1973
List Entry Name:
28 AND 30, RAILWAY STREET
Statutory Address:
28 AND 30, RAILWAY STREET
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1268755
Date first listed:
12-Apr-1973
List Entry Name:
28 AND 30, RAILWAY STREET
Statutory Address 1:
28 AND 30, 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
28 AND 30, 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 32754 12690

Details

HERTFORD

TL3212NE RAILWAY STREET
817-1/17/187 (South side)
12/04/73 Nos.28 AND 30

GV II

Houses, now with large shop on ground floor of No.30. C17,
with C18 and C19 alterations. Timber-framed, stuccoed front,
pebbledashed rear, with brown brick lean-to outshoot behind
No.28. A brown brick right-hand (west) wall, and parapet, is a
vestige of properties to the west demolished in 1960s. Old
tiled roofs.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics; first floor has 4 flush-set
12-pane sash windows, with architrave surrounds; ground floor
has carriageway on left, large C20 shopfront with plate glass
windows across centre, and single flush-set 12-pane sash
window at right, with panelled door under weatherboard hood on
cut console brackets. Rear has flush-set 12-pane sash window
above carriageway, scattered fenestration, much renewed,
elsewhere.
Roofs with 4 box dormers (3 casements and single C20 pivot
widow); projecting gable over main rear outshoot. Welsh slated
roof to lean-to behind No.28. Yellow brick chimneystack
forward of ridge on left, and tall red-brown brick
chimneystack with band and 4 tall orange clay pots which rises
from rear slope of No.28. Tall brown brick stack further back.
INTERIOR: ground floors opened out. Interiors of upper floors
not inspected.


Listing NGR: TL3275412690

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

Legacy System number:
461470
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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