19,21 AND 21A, OLD CROSS

19,21 AND 21A, OLD CROSS

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1268830
Date first listed:
09-Sept-1996
List Entry Name:
19,21 AND 21A, OLD CROSS
Statutory Address:
19,21 AND 21A, OLD CROSS
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1268830
Date first listed:
09-Sept-1996
List Entry Name:
19,21 AND 21A, OLD CROSS
Statutory Address 1:
19,21 AND 21A, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
19,21 AND 21A, 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 32444 12717

Details

HERTFORD

TL3212NW OLD CROSS
817-1/16/144 (West side)
Nos.19, 21 AND 21A

GV II

House, now shops with flat above. C17 with C19 alterations.
Stucco over timber-frame, below old tiled roof. Lead flat roof
at left. Red brick chimneystack at rear with long earthenware
pots.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic (No.19). First floor has three
projecting canted wooden oriel bays, with plate-glazed sashes,
supported on cut brackets. Ground floor has C20 shopfront at
left (No.19) and altered late C19 shopfronts in centre (No.21)
and in 2-storey flat roofed extension at right (No.21A) plate
glazed shop windows with wood frames, half-glazed doors,
stucco stallrisers, continuous fascia with foliated carved
consoles and moulded cornice. Roof with single box dormer with
sash window, lead cheeks.
INTERIOR: Nos 21 & 21A opened out to form a single shop, with
timber studwork of former end wall removed leaving mortices in
exposed plate, exposed beams with chamfer and tongue, reset
C18 panelling, and altered brick fireplace on rear wall. Upper
floors and roof not inspected.




Listing NGR: TL3244412717

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
461419
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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