72 AND 74, FORE STREET
72 AND 74, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268900
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 72 AND 74, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 72 AND 74, FORE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268900
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 72 AND 74, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 72 AND 74, 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:
- 72 AND 74, 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 32734 12583
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212NE FORE STREET
817-1/17/75 (South side)
12/04/73 Nos.72 AND 74
GV II
Bank, now offices. Late C19 (pre 1890), with C20 alterations.
Ashlar yellow sandstone front, grey-brown brick, laid to
Flemish bond at rear. Welsh slated roofs above wide moulded
modillioned cornice at front, hipped end to rear outshut, and
tall grey-brown brick chimneystacks.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with 2-storey rear outshut. 4-bay front
elevation, Italianate style. First floor has 4 plate-glazed
sash windows in projecting architrave surrounds, the outer
windows with moulded consoles and cornice hoods, panelled
aprons and pilasters below. The inner windows have carved
consoles with garlands. There are carved foliated panels
above, below cornice with eaved segmental pediment above.
Panelled aprons flanked by pilasters below. Modillioned
cornice at first-floor level above fascia.
Second floor has 4 plate-glazed sash windows with segmental
heads, and moulded architrave surrounds with projecting
keyblocks, with projecting band above, projecting sills below,
carried on consoles, with cast-iron fretted frontals. Ground
floor rusticated, with 3 plate-glazed sashes recessed below
segmental arches, projecting apron panels beneath. Doorway at
right with hardwood panelled 2 leaf doors below rectangular
fanlight, rusticated voussoirs with vermiculated keyblock, and
vermiculated plinth course.
Long narrow outshut with C20 steel French windows and
casements on first floor, below brick soldier arch. Ground
floor with C19 triple sash, plate-glazed, beneath slightly
cambered rubbed brick arch.
INTERIOR: ground floor former banking hall stripped of
original fittings and subdivided.
Listing NGR: TL3273412583
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461321
- 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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