Barclays Bank
BARCLAYS BANK, 76 AND 78, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268901
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Barclays Bank
- Statutory Address:
- BARCLAYS BANK, 76 AND 78, FORE STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-06-06
- Reference:
- IOE01/03119/24
- Rights:
- © Mr A. Gude. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268901
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Barclays Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARCLAYS BANK, 76 AND 78, 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:
- BARCLAYS BANK, 76 AND 78, 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 32744 12587
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212NE FORE STREET
817-1/17/76 (South side)
10/02/50 Nos.76 AND 78
Barclays Bank
GV II
Shop with living accommodation over, now bank and offices.
Early C19, ground floor rebuilt 1885, with mid C20 internal
alterations and rear extension. Painted stone and stucco
facade, yellow stock brick and stucco rear outshoots, Welsh
slated roofs, concealed by parapet above cornice, stepped up
in centre.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. 5-bay front 1:3:1. First floor has triple
sashes, 4:12:4 panes, separated by slender antae, with large
pediments above carried on moulded consoles. Central 3 bays
break forward, with three 12-pane sash windows in moulded
architrave surrounds, the centre window also having a plain
outer surround with a flat moulded cornice hood carried on
moulded consoles.
Second floor has 5 sash windows, all 12 pane, with the central
window having a moulded architrave surround, and a projecting
sill carried on plain corbels at either side. Ground floor has
plinth, moulded string course, with raised panelled Tuscan
Doric pilasters defining central 3 bays, coupled at left and
right and single flanking central bay, above responds. Triple
window at left, fixed small-paned sashes, with projecting
transom, separated by panelled Tuscan antae, with moulded
projecting surround-cill raised during 1980s to accommodate
cash dispensing machines in stucco panel below. 3 central
windows of mullion and transom pattern with moulded architrave
surround.
To right is former carriageway with channelled rusticated
jambs and elliptical arch, now infilled with modern
multi-panel hardwood double-leaf doors below fixed panel head.
Ground floor surmounted by entablature with plain frieze and
moulded cornice, with modillions to central 3 bays.
Rear elevations plain, with 12-pane sash windows first and
second floors, with pink sandstone bands and stepped lintels
on first floor, and yellow stock brick, Flemish Bond walls.
Lower 2-storey stuccoed outshoot with recessed sash window in
first floor and flush set sashes on ground floor.
INTERIOR: largely gutted and opened out on ground floor, with
main entrance taken through former carriageway, replacing
previous entrance in right-hand bay of centre.
HISTORICAL NOTE: this building was constructed by a local
store owner, Rayment, in early C19. The ground floor
originally had twin Ionic columns in antis, with a central
entrance and large-paned shop windows left and right. The
ground floor was altered by Barclays in 1885 when they
acquired the site.
(Hope Bagenal: The Georgian and Post Georgian Buildings of
Hertford: 1929-: 19-20; Green L: Hertford's Past in pictures:
Ware: 1993-: 162).
Listing NGR: TL3274412587
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461322
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bagenal, H, The Georgian and Post Georgian Buildings of Hertford, (1929), 19-20
Green, L, Hertfords Past in Pictures, (1993), 162
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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