6, OLD CROSS
6, OLD CROSS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268825
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 6, OLD CROSS
- Statutory Address:
- 6, OLD CROSS
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- Reference:
- IOE01/02925/25
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268825
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 6, OLD CROSS
- Statutory Address 1:
- 6, 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:
- 6, 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 32480 12679
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212NW OLD CROSS
817-1/16/139 (East side)
12/04/73 No.6
(Formerly Listed as:
OLD CROSS
Nos.6 AND 8)
GV II
House now shop. C16 with C18 and C19 alterations.
Timber-framed and stuccoed below old tiled roof and tall red
brick chimneystack against end wall of No.4; tall external red
brick chimney against rear wall.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. First floor has 2 flush set sash windows,
glazing bars and architrave surrounds, that to right partly
concealed behind shop fascia. Ground floor has square flush
set display window at left, and late C19 shopfront with full
length plate glass display window, divided by central mullion.
Three quarter glazed entrance door at left, pilaster with long
console flanking left side of fascia and blind box. Rusticated
stucco quoins left and right, and shallow break in elevation
at first-floor level suggesting former jetty. Roof with gabled
casement dormer at right.
INTERIOR: partly contiguous with No.8 (qv) at first-floor
level. Ground floor has 3 bays, and a truncated 4th bay
defined by exposed beams with cut off ends and propped by
cast-iron columns behind shopfront. Fireplace on rear wall,
with niche alongside. Jowled posts and tie beams exposed on
first floor, with mortices for heavy arch braces, now missing,
and remains of high level windows on outer walls indicating
former open hall. Some late C17 plank doors with iron strap
hinges. Timber framing possibly covered with the beams inside
No.4 (qv). Roof has halved and pegged rafters but disturbed
sequence of assembly marks.
Together with No.8 (qv) this formed the original premises of
Beckwith and Son, the Hertford antique dealers in the late
C19. Although formerly listed with No.8 as one item, two
distinct buildings are involved.
(Forrester H: Timber-framed buildings in Hertford and Ware:
Hitchin: 1964-: 17; Green L: Hertford's Past in pictures:
Ware: 1993-: 117-142).
Listing NGR: TL3248412679
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461414
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Forrester, H, Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware, (1964), 17
Green, L, Hertfords Past in Pictures, (1993), 117-142
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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