Gravesons
GRAVESONS, 1 AND 3, MAIDENHEAD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268865
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Gravesons
- Statutory Address:
- GRAVESONS, 1 AND 3, MAIDENHEAD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268865
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Gravesons
- Statutory Address 1:
- GRAVESONS, 1 AND 3, MAIDENHEAD STREET
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461370
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Green, L, Hertfords Past in Pictures, (1993), 112-113
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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