OLD FORGE HOUSE

OLD FORGE HOUSE, 255 AND 257, HERTINGFORDBURY ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268893
Date first listed:: 12-Apr-1973
List Entry Name:: OLD FORGE HOUSE
Statutory Address:: OLD FORGE HOUSE, 255 AND 257, HERTINGFORDBURY ROAD

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Date:: 2000-08-29
Reference:: IOE01/02721/32
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268893
Date first listed:: 12-Apr-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: OLD FORGE HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: OLD FORGE HOUSE, 255 AND 257, HERTINGFORDBURY ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: OLD FORGE HOUSE, 255 AND 257, HERTINGFORDBURY ROAD

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:: TL3070912049

Details

HERTFORD

TL3012SE HERTINGFORDBURY ROAD 817-1/23/324 (East side) 12/04/73 Hertingfordbury Nos.255 AND 257 Old Forge House (Formerly Listed as: MAIN ROAD, Hertingfordbury No.253 Old Forge House)

GV II

House. C18, altered C19 and C20. Timber-framed and plastered, old tile and C20 tiled roofs, with red brick chimneys with oversailing bands. Central entry plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. First floor and ground floor have 2 flush-set 16-pane sash windows, ground floor with modern 6-panel door with architrave surround shallow fanlight and cornice doorhood on cut bracket modillions. 1-bay wing recessed at left (No.257) with 3 storeys, 1 sash window first floor, small casement on second floor, and modern wide small-paned bow window on ground floor. INTERIOR: not inspected. Included as part of a significant grouping with Nos 251 & 253 (qv).

Listing NGR: TL3070912049

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 461356
Legacy System:: LBS

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