12 AND 14, OLD CROSS
12 AND 14, OLD CROSS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268827
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 12 AND 14, OLD CROSS
- Statutory Address:
- 12 AND 14, OLD CROSS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268827
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 12 AND 14, OLD CROSS
- Statutory Address 1:
- 12 AND 14, 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:
- 12 AND 14, 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 32491 12701
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212NW OLD CROSS
817-1/16/141 (East side)
12/04/73 Nos.12 AND 14
GV II
Houses, now private brewery museum and hospitality suite. Late
C15/early C16 (No.14) and C17 (No.12), altered, and restored
1940s, after bomb damage. Timber-framed and plastered,
underbuilt in brick and plastered, below old tile roofs.
Central square red brick stack has 4 clustered octagonal
shafts with oversailing courses, C20 red brick stack at left
(north) end of No.14.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. First floor of No.14 jettied with exposed
beam ends, exposed studding and downward curving braces,
together with C20 3-light lattice-leaded wood casement window,
with similar upper light in plastered gable. Ground floor with
single 3-light and one 2-light lattice glazed casement. First
floor of No.12 has two 3-light lattice glazed casements, and
small central 2-light casement. Ground floor with two 3-light
lattice glazed casements, and recessed modern hardwood
battened door right centre; shallow first floor on line of
underbuilt jetty.
Rear elevation with irregularly spaced plain-glazed wood
casement windows, and central C20 glazed door; roof of No.12
sweeps round as hipped end into lower roof of No.14, with
upstand gablet above ridge.
INTERIOR: much altered, particularly during postwar
rebuilding. Cross wing, No.14, has raised first floor, and
truncated crown post roof, with plain post having fore and aft
bracing, roof ceiled at collar level. Position of mullioned
windows and shutter grooves visible. Ground floor has ogee
headed door opening in stud partition. No.12 has narrow
central smoke bay, occupied by brick chimney with restored
altered fireplace openings.
(Forrester H: Timber-framed buildings in Hertford and Ware:
Hitchin: 1964-: 10-11; Smith JT: Hertfordshire Houses:
Selective Inventory: London: 1993-: 86).
Listing NGR: TL3249112701
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461416
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Forrester, H, Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware, (1964), 10-11
Smith, J T, Hertfordshire Houses Selective Inventory, (1993), 86
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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