GRAVESONS

GRAVESONS, 1 AND 3, MAIDENHEAD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268865
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: GRAVESONS
Statutory Address:: GRAVESONS, 1 AND 3, MAIDENHEAD STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268865
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: GRAVESONS
Statutory Address 1:: GRAVESONS, 1 AND 3, MAIDENHEAD STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: GRAVESONS, 1 AND 3, MAIDENHEAD STREET

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 32661 12630

Details

HERTFORD

TL3212NE MAIDENHEAD STREET 817-1/17/106 (South side) Nos.1 AND 3 Gravesons

GV II

Department store. c1895. Colourwashed brick with stucco dressings, structural cast-iron ground floor and interior columns; swept curved Welsh slated roof, with lead flat crown. Truncated yellow brick chimney at left against rear wall of Nos 10 & 11 Market Place (qv), and No.8 Salisbury Square (qv). Bold curved plan and facade sweeps round from Salisbury Square to Maidenhead Street frontage at right. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. First floor has 6 windows, plate glazed, with upper transom lights, in timber-frames, recessed in projecting moulded stucco architraves, with recessed scalloped panel and moulded cornice above. Between windows are brick pilasters and recessed panels, with scalloped ornament at upper level. Above first-floor windows is swag-ornamented fascia, dentil-modillion course and moulded cornice. Ground floor has continuous shopfront, its 6 bays not precisely aligned with first floor above, with slender cast-iron barleysugar twist columns, with roll moulded bases and foliated caps, set on plinth blocks. Continuous fascia with dentil-modillion course and moulded cornice at first floor sill level. Canted sided timber-framed plate glazed display cases with arcaded heads and lead flat tops installed in 1980s between columns; arcaded glazed entrance doors second bay from right; right of shopfront is door with moulded stucco architrave surround. Roof with 2 tall sash dormers with glazed cheeks and segmental-pedimented lead-covered roofs. INTERIOR: open-plan to provide uninterrupted retail space, no distinctive features visible. South side opens into Nos 10 and 11 Market Place (qv) at ground and first-floor levels. HISTORICAL NOTE: the drapery trade in Hertford was dominated by the Pollards, Robinsons and Gravesons, all Quaker families, from the turn of the C18/C19. By the end of the century Graveson and Robinson had joined forces and built new premises on the site of Nos 1 & 3 Maidenhead Street. (Green L: Hertford's Past in pictures: Ware: 1993-: 112-3).

Listing NGR: TL3266112630

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Legacy System number:: 461370
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Green, L, Hertfords Past in Pictures, (1993), 112-113

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.