6 AND 8, RAILWAY STREET, 2, SALISBURY SQUARE

2, SALISBURY SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268791
Date first listed:: 11-Apr-1973
List Entry Name:: 6 AND 8, RAILWAY STREET, 2, SALISBURY SQUARE
Statutory Address:: 2, SALISBURY SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268791
Date first listed:: 11-Apr-1973
List Entry Name:: 6 AND 8, RAILWAY STREET, 2, SALISBURY SQUARE
Statutory Address 1:: 2, SALISBURY SQUARE
Statutory Address 2:: 6 AND 8, RAILWAY STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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

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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.