The Great Eastern Tavern
THE GREAT EASTERN TAVERN, 29, RAILWAY PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268790
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- The Great Eastern Tavern
- Statutory Address:
- THE GREAT EASTERN TAVERN, 29, RAILWAY PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268790
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- The Great Eastern Tavern
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GREAT EASTERN TAVERN, 29, RAILWAY PLACE
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:
- THE GREAT EASTERN TAVERN, 29, RAILWAY PLACE
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 33266 12959
Details
HERTFORD
TL3312NW RAILWAY PLACE
817-1/18/182 (West side)
No.29
The Great Eastern Tavern
II
Hotel, now public house. 1843, with late C19 and mid C20
alterations. Yellow Stock brick, laid to Flemish bond, with
stucco plat band and cornice, Welsh slated hipped roof with
red clay 'V' chimneys with orange terracotta pots. L-plan with
infill between arms having curved front.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 2 wood sash windows with glazing bars
recessed in brick reveals under rubbed brick arches, first
floor end elevations, 1 central window in re-entrant. Ground
floor has projecting flat-roofed yellow brick bay window,
c1950s, at left, and late C19 shopfront entrance to former
off-sales at right, 3 light moulded wood mullion and transom
windows, with leaded upper vents, above patterned stucco
stallriser with circular motifs. Half-glazed entrance door at
left, rusticated stucco pilasters left and right, with fascia
immediately below first-floor window sills.
Centre has ground floor loggia with antae and pilaster
responds, curved wood fascia, moulded cornice and cast-iron
railings to perimeter of flat canopy roof. Entrance recessed,
altered mid C20, 2 half glazed doors in centre with sash
windows left and right.
INTERIOR: refurbished 1940s, with central bar dispense serving
2 major bar rooms. Upper floors not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: built as an hotel by the Eastern Counties
Railway, and served the Hertford Station in its original
location, until the construction of the replacement Hertford
East Station in the 1880s. The building is a near twin of the
contemporary Station Hotel in Station Place, Ware.
Listing NGR: TL3326612959
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461463
- 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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