5 AND 7, PARLIAMENT SQUARE
5 AND 7, PARLIAMENT SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268798
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 5 AND 7, PARLIAMENT SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 5 AND 7, PARLIAMENT SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268798
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 5 AND 7, PARLIAMENT SQUARE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 5 AND 7, PARLIAMENT SQUARE
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:
- 5 AND 7, PARLIAMENT SQUARE
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 32620 12525
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212NE PARLIAMENT SQUARE
817-1/17/154 (East side)
12/04/73 Nos.5 AND 7
GV II
Houses, now shops and offices. Late C15 (No.7) partly
overbuilt by C18 structure (No.5), with C19 alterations and
shopfronts. Timber-framed and plastered below old tiled roofs,
and wide eaves with moulded cornice.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics (No.5); 2 storeys (No.7), which
is a 2-bay structure, possibly a cross wing to a previous
building on the site of No.9, to right (east) (qv). First
floor has 2 flush-set C19 sash windows with plain glazing and
architrave surrounds. Single C19 sash window with divided
glazing set lower in gable end of No.7 at right. Ground floor
C19 shopfront to No.5 with central recessed doorway with
half-glazed door, plate glass display windows in
timber-frames, pilaster surround surmounted by moulded
consoles flanking fascia, with cornice/blind box immediately
below first-floor window sills. At right, shopfront of No.7
recessed beneath jettied first floor, recessed door at left,
timber-framed closed window, flanking pilasters, fascia fixed
to bressumer. Roof with 1 gabled casement dormer (No.5); gable
facing street (No.7).
At rear, No.5 has long 2 storeyed outshoot, timber-framed and
plastered with old tiled roof.
INTERIOR: exposed studs within outshoot of No.5, which has 2
rooms with a central chimneystack. Exposed studs indicating 2
bay structure on first floor of No.7, ceiled at collar level,
with no access to roof structure.
(Forrester H: Timber-framed buildings in Hertford and Ware:
Hitchin: 1964-: 12; Smith JT: English Houses 1200-1800: The
Hertfordshire Evidence: London: 1992-: 149).
Listing NGR: TL3262012525
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461429
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Forrester, H, Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware, (1964), 12
Smith, J T, English Houses 1200-1800 The Hertfordshire Evidence, (1994), 149
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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