2, SALISBURY SQUARE, 6 AND 8, RAILWAY STREET
2, SALISBURY SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268791
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 2, SALISBURY SQUARE, 6 AND 8, RAILWAY STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 2, SALISBURY SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268791
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 2, SALISBURY SQUARE, 6 AND 8, RAILWAY STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, SALISBURY SQUARE
- Statutory Address 2:
- 6 AND 8, 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:
- 2, SALISBURY SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 6 AND 8, 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 32698 12646
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212NE RAILWAY STREET
817-1/17/183 (South side)
12/04/73 Nos.6 AND 8
GV II
Includes: No.2 SALISBURY SQUARE.
One building; houses, with ground floors progressively
converted to shops from mid C19. Early/mid C19, with C20
alterations. Yellow-brown brick, laid to Flemish bond, with
stucco dressings. Welsh slated roof over bracketed eaves,
hipped around splayed corner at right (west) over No.2
Salisbury Square. Yellow brick chimneystack with projecting
band and 6 tall orange clay pots.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; first floor has 3 irregularly spaced
12-pane sash windows recessed under rubbed brick flat arches,
immediately above stucco sill band. Second floor with 4 square
voids, 3 with 9-pane sashes, second from left a dummy, all
with stucco sills. Splayed right-hand corner has first floor
recess, with rubbed brick semicircular arch, with dummy window
recess on second floor.
The return elevation to Salisbury Square has 2 first-floor
windows, and 1 window and dummy at right on second floor.
Ground floor with shopfronts of various designs: at left No.8
has C19 shopfront with closed plate glass window in moulded
timber-frame, above glazed tile stallriser, to right is half
glazed door above stone step, recessed in projecting surround;
fascia with flat-modillioned cornice above: No.6 has cut
bracketed doorhood (above C20 glazed door), and to right plate
glass display window in void originally occupied by sash
window, surrounding brickwork colourwashed above stucco
plinth.
Corner shopfront of No.2 Salisbury Square renewed with late
C20 small-paned windows and glazed door with pilaster surround
and pediment. The surrounding masonry is stuccoed and
colourwashed below first-floor sill band.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Together with Nos 10 & 12 Railway Street adjoining (qv) this
development reflects the growing importance of shops in mid
C19 Hertford.
No.2 Salisbury Square is included on the list for the first
time.
Listing NGR: TL3269812646
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461464
- 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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