8, OLD CROSS
8, OLD CROSS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268826
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 8, OLD CROSS
- Statutory Address:
- 8, OLD CROSS
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268826
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 8, OLD CROSS
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8, 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:
- 8, 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 32484 12689
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212NW OLD CROSS
817-1/16/140 (East side)
12/04/73 No.8
(Formerly Listed as:
OLD CROSS
Nos.6 AND 8)
GV II
Shop, formerly house. Late C16, with C18 and C19 alterations.
Timber-framed, plastered and colourwashed below old tiled roof
with twin gables having heavy barge boards to front. Large red
chimneystack with 5 diagonally set shafts and oversailing laps
at rear above long outshoot.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. First floor has 2
lattice-glazed casement windows, with 1 small wood casement
dormer, set high in left gable, right gable has 1 lattice
casement window, with applied studding. Ground floor has
6-panel door with upper 2 glazed, under flat hood, at left,
and early C20 shopfront with full length plate glass display
windows subdivided with slender mullions, and three quarter
length glazed entrance door right centre. At right is
carriageway with pair of boarded doors, with wicket in
right-hand leaf.
Long 2-storey timber-framed and plastered outshoot, partly
underbuilt in brick and stuccoed on ground floor. Carriageway
weatherboarded with glazed entrance door, with architrave
surround and hood on consoles.
INTERIOR: ground floor front has exposed beam in ceiling and
large fireplace on wall with red brick jambs. Rear room now
opened out with mortices for studs and 3-light wooden mullion
window visible in ceiling, with additional C18 bay, and later
C19 end bay added to form outshoot. First floor rear room has
3 light unglazed wooden mullion window. C18 newel stair
alongside chimneystack. Attic has red brick arched fireplace.
Roof rafters exposed, halved and pegged rafters with modern
collars, pegged rafters in gables.
Together with No.6 (qv) this formed the original premises of
Beckwith and Son, the Hertford antique dealers in the late
C19. Although formerly listed with No.6 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:
- 461415
- 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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