7 AND 8, MARKET PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268871
Date first listed:: 12-Apr-1973
List Entry Name:: 7 AND 8, MARKET PLACE
Statutory Address:: 7 AND 8, MARKET PLACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268871
Date first listed:: 12-Apr-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: 7 AND 8, MARKET PLACE
Statutory Address 1:: 7 AND 8, MARKET PLACE

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:: 7 AND 8, MARKET PLACE

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 32648 12611

Details

HERTFORD

TL3212NE MARKET PLACE 817-1/17/113 (North side) 12/04/73 Nos.7 AND 8 (Formerly Listed as: MARKET PLACE Nos.7, 8 AND 9)

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House, now shops, with storage and flats above. Late C16/early C17, heightened and altered early C19. Timber-framed, plastered and part stuccoed with masonry lining, and with hipped Welsh slated roof with broad panelled soffit carried on slim cut brackets. Rear outshut along Honey Lane has old tiled roof. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, first and second floors each have 2 flush-set sashes with 12 main panes and narrow margin panes. Band below second floor sill. Third floor has 2 squat 6-pane sashes with margin panes. Ground floor recessed below jetty, with corner door to No.7 in broad architrave, plate glass display windows above panelled stallrisers. Recessed three quarter glazed door to No.8 and similar display window, with consoles supporting continuous fascia at bressumer level, which has moulded cornice. Outshut along Honey Lane (formerly No.2) has 2-bay front, with jettied plastered first floor having flush set 16-pane sash at left and closed window without glazing bars at right; ground floor has recessed shopfront with 2 closed plate glass display windows, central three quarter glazed door and cut profiled console brackets supporting slender doorhead on underside of jetty. INTERIOR: ground floor of No.8 has ogee moulded beam, second floor with wide elm floorboards, third floor of No.7 has single attic, building one room deep at this level. No.7 has exposed beams with chamfer and tongue stops. Extensive basements with C19 fireplace in front compartment of No.8. Outshut along Honey Lane has roof with exposed purlins, ceiled at collar level, rafters not visible. HISTORICAL NOTE: No.7 and 8 Market Place can be seen in a view of Hertford Market Place by Thomas Rowlandson, c1800, when they had jettied gabled roofs above second-floor level, and elaborated pargeted fronts. The early C19 reconstruction was very thorough but vestiges of the late medieval structure are visible, including the jettied front, while the outshut along Honey Lane, now partly integrated with No.7, retains its late C16 appearance.

(Forrester H: Timber-framed buildings in Hertford and Ware: Hitchin: 1964-: 13; Smith JT: Hertfordshire Houses: Selective Inventory: London: 1993-: 85; Page FM: History of Hertford: Hertford: 1993-).

Listing NGR: TL3264812611

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 461376
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Forrester, H , Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware, (1964), 13
Page, F M, History of Hertford, (1993)
Smith, J T, Hertfordshire Houses Selective Inventory, (1993), 85

Legal

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