Great Northern Works
Great Northern Works, Hartham Lane, Hertford, SW14 1QW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268882
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Great Northern Works
- Statutory Address:
- Great Northern Works, Hartham Lane, Hertford, SW14 1QW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268882
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Great Northern Works
- Statutory Address 1:
- Great Northern Works, Hartham Lane, Hertford, SW14 1QW
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:
- Great Northern Works, Hartham Lane, Hertford, SW14 1QW
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 32441 12825
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18/11/2019
TL3212NW
817-1/16/99
HERTFORD
HARTHAM LANE (west side)
Great Northern Works
GV
II
Office headquarters of Ekins and Company Ltd, designed by James Farley, a director of the company, and completed 1908. Brick covered by stucco and artificial stone, Welsh slated and flat roofs behind parapet.
PLAN/EXTERIOR: symmetrical facade, two storeys ends, with long single storey centre. Italianate style. End pavilions have rusticated ground floor, plat band, fascia and cornice, and blank parapets concealing Welsh-slated roofs. Centre breaks forward with closely spaced wooden sash windows, with plate glass, ground and first floors. Entrance doors half glazed above two panels, left of windows respectively. Centre has arcade with stucco Tuscan columns forming loggia, five bays, with responds left and right, with 1:2:2:1 columns. Entablature with lower fascia, deep upper fascia cornice and parapet. Recessed front with wood pilasters as responds to those of arcade, timber windows, two to left of centre triple full length with mullions, transoms and square upper lights with radiating glazing bars around central circle; two to right similar, but with late C20 blank lower panels. Twin leaf timber half glazed doors with fanlight above in centre bay. Rear elevations with fletton brickwork, and with basement and excavated area.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: built on the approach to the former Cowbridge Station demolished c1980), the building takes its name from the Great Northern Railway which served Hertford from 1858. It has been the headquarters of a local building contractor, Ekins & Co from construction, and remains so.
Listing NGR: TL3244112825
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461345
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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