23 AND 23A, OLD CROSS
23 AND 23A, OLD CROSS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268831
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 23 AND 23A, OLD CROSS
- Statutory Address:
- 23 AND 23A, OLD CROSS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268831
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 23 AND 23A, OLD CROSS
- Statutory Address 1:
- 23 AND 23A, 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:
- 23 AND 23A, 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 32440 12729
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212NW OLD CROSS
817-1/16/145 (West side)
12/04/73 Nos.23 AND 23A
(Formerly Listed as:
OLD CROSS
(West side)
No.23)
GV II
House, incorporating shop. Early-mid C18, with early C20
alterations. Timber-framed, with brick front, now rendered in
lined-out stucco. Old tiled roof set above bold modillioned
wood eaves cornice and boxed eaves. Red brick stacks with
oversailing courses, that to right heightened. Central
staircase plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. First floor has three 12-pane
sash windows with exposed boxes, slightly recessed. Ground
floor has single sash window to left, central doorway, with
6-fielded panelled door, glazed 3-light overdoor, and C20
pedimented hood on cut brackets. Early C20 shopfront at right
with brown glazed brick stallriser, windows with canted recess
with three-quarter glazed door, fascia on moulded consoles and
bold moulded cornice/blind box. Roof has 2 gabled tiled
dormers with wooden sashes. C19 outshoot at rear.
INTERIOR: retains original staircase, and exposed framing.
(Smith JT: Hertfordshire Houses: Selective Inventory: London:
1993-: 86).
Listing NGR: TL3244012729
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461420
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
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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