15,17 AND 19, NORTH ROAD
15,17 AND 19, NORTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268842
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 15,17 AND 19, NORTH ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 15,17 AND 19, NORTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268842
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 15,17 AND 19, NORTH ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 15,17 AND 19, NORTH ROAD
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:
- 15,17 AND 19, NORTH ROAD
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 32105 12582
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212NW NORTH ROAD
817-1/16/127 (South side)
10/02/50 Nos.15, 17 AND 19
GV II
Semi-detached houses. c1825, with later alteration. Stucco
front, sides and rear outshoots. Hipped Welsh slated roofs
above moulded cornice, with widely spaced modillions, and
central stuccoed multi-flue chimneystack with orange clay
pots.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 4-bay front, with recessed wings,
originally single bay, but with later extensions, creating a
separate small dwelling (No.15) at left, and No.19 extended to
right to link to No.21 (qv). Second floor with 4 recessed
6-pane sash windows; first floor with 4 recessed 12-pane sash
windows above band. Ground floor has 4 recessed 15-pane sash
windows with semicircular heads set within outer arched recess
with projecting impost band. Stucco plinth. Recessed wing at
right has C20 9-pane arched window in ground floor recess,
6-pane sash on first floor, and 6-pane sash on set back second
floor.
2 storey set back wing on left, and linking wing on right,
stucco, Welsh slated roofs, 1 sash window ground floor and
first floor, entrance to No.19 in right-hand wing.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
These houses formed part of a group of similar pairs, some now
altered and linked. They represent the expansion of Hertford
along North Road towards the County Hospital during the late
1820s. It was shown as 'North Crescent' on an 1830 map.
Nos 15 & 17 were listed on 12/04/73.
(Hertfordshire Countryside: Forrester H: Hertford homes in
Georgian days: Letchworth: 1946-1961: 150-152; Green L:
Hertford's Past in pictures: Ware: 1993-: 44; Turnor L:
History of Hertford: Hertford: 1830-; The Buildings of
England: Pevsner N: Hertfordshire: Harmondsworth: 1977-: 193).
Listing NGR: TL3210512582
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461389
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 193
Green, L, Hertfords Past in Pictures, (1993), 44
Turnor, L, History of Hertford, (1830)
Hertfordshire Countryside in Hertfordshire Countryside, (1946-1961), 150-152
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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