88-96, FORE STREET
88-96, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268906
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 88-96, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 88-96, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268906
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 88-96, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 88-96, 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:
- 88-96, 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 32787 12602
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212NE FORE STREET
817-1/17/81 (South side)
10/02/50 Nos.88-96 (Even)
II
House, now offices. Early C18, heightened early C19,ground
floor remodelled early C20 with mid C20 shopfront. Dark plum
red brick, laid to Flemish bond, with cherry red dressings,
stuccoed rear elevation, tiled roof, above wide overhanging
eaves with slender bracket modillions and panelled soffit.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 7-bay front, with narrow central bay.
First floor has 6 flush-set 12-pane sash windows beneath
rubbed brick flat arches, and quoins in cherry red brick. A
central fielded panel is set in raised moulded border, with a
moulded cornice band above window. Second floor with 6 lower
flush-set 12-pane sashes. Ground floor remodelled but retains
vestige of former continuous first-floor level moulded plat
band visible at extreme right and left. Wide plate-glass
display windows between blue engineering brick piers, central
plate glass doors, with deep, almost full width fascia above.
The original ground floor was raised above a basement, with
sash windows, and a bold pedimented doorcase immediately right
of centre.
INTERIOR: much altered and opened out with ground floor
lowered to street level across front range of double-depth
plan. Stair at rear renewed 1950s, west and first-floor room
has double cyma wood cornice, window seats, but no shutters,
and fireplace has been removed. This was possibly the
principal bedroom. No features of note visible on second
floor.
(Smith JT: Hertfordshire Houses: Selective Inventory: London:
1993-: 85; Green L: Hertford's Past in pictures: Ware: 1993-:
15).
Listing NGR: TL3278712602
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461327
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Smith, J T, Hertfordshire Houses Selective Inventory, (1993), 85
Green, L, Hertfords Past in Pictures, (1993), 15
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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