13 AND 15, OLD CROSS
13 AND 15, OLD CROSS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268828
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 13 AND 15, OLD CROSS
- Statutory Address:
- 13 AND 15, OLD CROSS
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- Date:
- 2000-09-10
- Reference:
- IOE01/02925/15
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268828
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 13 AND 15, OLD CROSS
- Statutory Address 1:
- 13 AND 15, 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:
- 13 AND 15, 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 32445 12697
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212NW OLD CROSS
817-1/16/142 (West side)
Nos.13 AND 15
GV II
Shops, now with offices above. Late C19, incorporating C17
3-bay timber-framed structure. Red brick, laid to Flemish
bond, with yellow brick cornice and stucco dressings. Welsh
slated roof with mansard front above parapet.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics: first floor has 3 bays, with 6
sash windows in pairs, upper sashes 6 pane, lower sashes plain
glazed recessed below rubbed brick arches. 3 wood casement
dormers with slated cheeks, moulded cornice and lead flat
roofs. Yellow brick cornice above with moulded courses and
dentil course. Red brick moulded impost band. Recessed panels
at intermediate bay lines. Continuous moulded stucco cornice
at sill level with scroll and triglyph consoles on bay lines.
Ground floor 3 unequal bays, with carriageway at left and
moulded stucco reveals above impost blocks. Piers have
pilasters with small stucco scrollwork pediment caps.
Late C19 shopfront in centre and at right-hand; timber-framed
plate glass windows above red brick stall risers with fascias
below stucco cornice.
C19 lean-to outshut across rear elevation.
INTERIOR: exposed heavy section timbers, some chamfered with
tongue stops, subdivision of attic into 3 bays, with heavy
section principal rafters and collars, and pegged rafters,
together with the position of the fireplace on the rear wall
analogous to those in No.17, with the stair alongside,
indicate the C17 origin of this building.
Listing NGR: TL3244512697
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461417
- 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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