21,23 AND 27, NORTH ROAD
21,23 AND 27, NORTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268843
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 21,23 AND 27, NORTH ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 21,23 AND 27, NORTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268843
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 21,23 AND 27, NORTH ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 21,23 AND 27, 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:
- 21,23 AND 27, 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 32082 12585
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212NW NORTH ROAD
817-1/16/128 (South side)
10/02/50 Nos.21, 23 AND 27
GV II
Semi-detached houses. c1825. Stucco front, brown stock brick
laid to Flemish bond at rear and to outshoots. Hipped Welsh
slate roofs above moulded cornice, with widely spaced
modillions, and central stuccoed multi-flue chimneystack.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 4-bay front, with recessed 2-storey,
3-bay wings, stuccoed with hipped Welsh slated roofs, both
wings extended to full frontage of sites. Second floor with 4
recessed 9-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.
Wings subdivided by pilaster strips and bands, with arched
entrances with 6-panel doors and semicircular fanlights.
Rear elevations have 2 sash windows first and second floors,
20-pane and 15-pane, including narrow margin panes, under
rubbed brick arches; ground floor has 2 x 20-pane sashes
recessed within elliptical arches.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
This development was part of the growth of Hertford along
North Road towards the County Hospital during the late 1820s.
It was shown as 'North Crescent' on an 1830 map.
(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: TL3208212585
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461390
- 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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