14, PARLIAMENT SQUARE
14, PARLIAMENT SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268801
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 14, PARLIAMENT SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 14, PARLIAMENT SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268801
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 14, PARLIAMENT SQUARE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 14, 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:
- 14, 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 32575 12539
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212NE PARLIAMENT SQUARE
817-1/17/157 (East side)
10/02/50 No.14
GV II
Printing works, now offices. Early C19 with later alterations.
Stucco over brickwork, Welsh slated roof behind parapet.
Neo-classical design.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with first floor plat band. Centre breaks
forced with 4 Tuscan pilasters, frieze and cornice, with
blocking course above. 1:3:1 wooden sash windows, with glazing
bars in reveals, tall 12-pane frames on first floor, square
6-pane frames to second floor. Ground floor treated as
basement podium with 3 segmentally headed windows in centre,
recessed entrance at right.
INTERIOR: much altered in 1970s and not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: site of Briant's Bell Foundry, established
c1780 in earlier buildings, Simson (later Simson Shand)
printing works established on site c1830 and rebuilt in
frontage block.
Listing NGR: TL3257512539
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461432
- 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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