Number 85 Including Boundary Wall and Piers
NUMBER 85 INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALL AND PIERS, 85, PORT HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268774
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Number 85 Including Boundary Wall and Piers
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 85 INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALL AND PIERS, 85, PORT HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268774
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Number 85 Including Boundary Wall and Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 85 INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALL AND PIERS, 85, PORT HILL
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:
- NUMBER 85 INCLUDING BOUNDARY WALL AND PIERS, 85, PORT HILL
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 32305 13206
Details
HERTFORD
TL3213SW PORT HILL, Bengeo
817-1/15/280 (West side)
12/04/73 No.85
including boundary wall and piers
(Formerly Listed as:
PORT HILL
The Slopes)
II
Villa. Early/mid C19. Stucco with masonry lining, gabled Welsh
slated roof with fretted and pierced ornamental barge boards
and fascias, yellow brick chimney at left, and prominent
stuccoed chimney at right, with oversailing modillion cornice
and blocking course. Chimneybreast with 3 superimposed arched
panels with pilasters, semicircular heads and pargeting
keyblocks. 3-bay front, L-plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. First floor has flush-set French windows
with margin glazing left and right of gabled centre which
breaks forward, with central margin glazed flush-set sash
window. Moulded band at first-floor level; ground floor with
projecting rectangular bay windows left and right with tall
3-light 3-pane casements, with single sidelights, fretted wood
valance. Flat roofs with wooden balcony fronts with stick
balusters and nosed toprails, centre with projecting porch
with 3-pane sidelights, triangular fanlight and tiled gable
roof with fretted and pierced bargeboards.
Irregular fenestration on remaining elevations with 16-pane
sash windows and tall casements; east flank elevation on
boundary has central arcaded chimneybreast as described above,
moulded band at first-floor level with flush-set glazed sash
windows, ground floor and first floor to right.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: boundary wall with brown brick piers and
flint panels.
Listing NGR: TL3230513206
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461447
- 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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