1-7, PORT HILL
1-7, PORT HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268811
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 1-7, PORT HILL
- Statutory Address:
- 1-7, PORT HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268811
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 1-7, PORT HILL
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-7, PORT HILL
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:
- 1-7, PORT HILL
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 32273 12878
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212NW PORT HILL
817-1/16/168 (West side)
10/02/50 Nos.1-7 (Odd)
GV II
Terrace of 4 houses, treated as a symmetrical architectural
composition. Early C19. Yellow stock brick front, laid to
Flemish Bond, with stucco dressings; yellow-grey gault brick
side and rear. Welsh slated roofs, mainly hipped, behind low
parapets. Original moulded stucco cornice and brick blocking
course remains on No.1. Yellow brick chimneystacks with
oversailing courses and orange and yellow earthenware pots.
Terrace takes a shallow convex plan set back from the road
frontage behind shallow front gardens.
EXTERIOR: 3-storey wings (Nos 1 & 7) with 2-storey centre (Nos
3 and 5), with shallow central break in wings, and in the
centre. 3 (1:1:1): 6(2:2:2): 3 (1:1:1) sash windows on first
floor, 12-pane, recessed, with concealed boxes, beneath rubbed
flat arches. 2nd floors (Nos 1 & 7) 3 nine-pane sash windows.
Central projecting pediment shared by Nos 3 & 5. Stucco plat
band at first-floor level. Ground floor has doors to No.1 at
extreme left, recessed 4-panel door, with upper 2 glazed, with
stucco architrave surround, panelled frieze and cornice; door
to No.7 now rebuilt as window with side entry. Projecting
centre with rusticated stucco and twin arches with recessed
porches to Nos 3 & 5, 4-panel doors as No.1, and plain glazed
semicircular fanlights. Ground-floor sash windows plate glazed
with central mullion in each sash; similar window on first
floor of No.7.
Sides and rear have sash windows to each floor, some beneath
segmental arches. No.1 has 2-storey outshoot, raised from
original single storey form.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Nos 3 & 5 were listed on 12/04/73.
(Hope Bagenal: The Georgian and Post Georgian Buildings of
Hertford: 1929-: 19).
Listing NGR: TL3227312878
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461442
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bagenal, H, The Georgian and Post Georgian Buildings of Hertford, (1929), 19
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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