4, OLD CROSS
4, OLD CROSS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268823
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 4, OLD CROSS
- Statutory Address:
- 4, OLD CROSS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268823
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 4, OLD CROSS
- Statutory Address 1:
- 4, OLD CROSS
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:
- 4, OLD CROSS
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 32477 12672
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212NW OLD CROSS
817-1/16/137 (East side)
No.4
GV II
House, now shop with residence over. C16, rebuilt C19 and mid
1920s. Timber-framed, brick and stucco exterior, Welsh slated
roof with hipped end, above brick dentil eaves.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 1st and 2nd floors have recessed small
paned sash windows with glazing bars, 2 (one blank) to Old
Cross, 1 on diagonal, and 2 to Mill Bridge return elevation.
Continuous ground floor 1920s shopfront with plate glass
display windows, stuccoed stallriser, slim panelled pilasters
with canted console blocks flanking fascia. Continuous blind
boxes above glazed shop door in splayed recess at right of Old
Cross elevation.
INTERIOR: ground floor has elaborately roll moulded exposed
beams, late C16, with cut ends and cast-iron column supports
behind shopfront, and fireplace arch with heavy timber
bressumer on party wall with No.6 (qv). No timber of this age
and quality visible above on first or second floors. The
property was rebuilt mid/late C19 and again radically
reconstructed when the improved Mill Bridge was realigned in
1926-7.
Listing NGR: TL3248012674
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461412
- 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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