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:: 12 AND 14, OLD CROSS

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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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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.