Former Lodge to Christs Hospital School
FORMER LODGE TO CHRISTS HOSPITAL SCHOOL, 131, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268877
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Former Lodge to Christs Hospital School
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER LODGE TO CHRISTS HOSPITAL SCHOOL, 131, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268877
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Former Lodge to Christs Hospital School
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER LODGE TO CHRISTS HOSPITAL SCHOOL, 131, FORE 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:
- FORMER LODGE TO CHRISTS HOSPITAL SCHOOL, 131, FORE 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 32966 12718
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212NE FORE STREET
817-1/17/94 (North side)
No.131
Former Lodge to Christ's Hospital
School
GV II
Numbered 123 on OS map.
Lodge, now offices. Early C19 with C20 alterations. Red brick,
laid to Flemish bond (south wall partly refaced), Welsh slated
hipped roof with lead roll hips and ridge, above corbelled
brick cornice; central red brick chimney with oversailing
courses and 4 pots 3 pale yellow with rim tops.
EXTERIOR: south elevation, first floor left-hand and ground
floor right-hand, late C20 multi-pane wood sash windows under
brick soldier arches. First floor centre, carved Portland
stone cartouche with armorial bearings of City of London. East
elevation has blocked ground floor gatekeeper's doorway
beneath rubbed brick segmental arch and splayed corner with
single sash window first floor and ground floor beneath rubbed
segmental arches. Late C20 gabled porch with Welsh slated
roof.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Included for group value as part of the Christ's Hospital
complex.
(Hope Bagenal: The Georgian and Post Georgian Buildings of
Hertford: 1929-: 10-11; Victoria History of the Counties of
England: Hertfordshire: London: 1902-1912: 491; Royal
Commission on Historical Monuments (England): An Inventory of
the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire: London: 1910-:
113-4; Hertfordshire Countryside: Morrison J: Bluecoats in
Hertfordshire: Letchworth: 1946-1954: 62-3; Hertfordshire
Countryside: Moodey G: Georgian brickwork of the choicest
sort: Letchworth: 1946-1973: 26-7; The Buildings of England:
Pevsner N: Hertfordshire: Harmondsworth: 1977-: 188; Page FM:
History of Hertford: Hertford: 1993-: 58,59,97,122,125-6).
Listing NGR: TL3296612718
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461340
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1902), 491
Page, F M, History of Hertford, (1993), 58 59 97
Page, F M, History of Hertford, (1993), 122 125-6
Bagenal, H, The Georgian and Post Georgian Buildings of Hertford, (1929), 10-11
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 188
Hertfordshire Countryside in Hertfordshire Countryside, (1946-1954), 62-63
Hertfordshire Countryside in Hertfordshire Countryside, (1946-1973), 26-27
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
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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