7 AND 8, MARKET PLACE
7 AND 8, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- 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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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268871
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 7 AND 8, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 7 AND 8, MARKET PLACE
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:
- 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)
GV II
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
Page, F M, History of Hertford, (1993)
Forrester, H, Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware, (1964), 13
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.
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