99 AND 101, FORE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268909
Date first listed:: 12-Apr-1973
List Entry Name:: 99 AND 101, FORE STREET
Statutory Address:: 99 AND 101, FORE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268909
Date first listed:: 12-Apr-1973
List Entry Name:: 99 AND 101, FORE STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 99 AND 101, FORE STREET

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 99 AND 101, 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 32847 12668

Details

HERTFORD

TL3212NE FORE STREET 817-1/17/84 (North side) 12/04/73 Nos.99 AND 101

GV II

House, now shop with storage in former dwelling over ground floor. Early C18,with C19 and C20 alterations. Orange-red brick laid to Flemish bond, with grey overburnt headers. Old tile roofs. Double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 5-bay front with entry slightly right of centre, staircase hall in centre right-hand side; 2 storeys and attics. First floor has 5 slightly recessed 12-pane sash windows in architrave surrounds under rubbed flat arches, immediately below moulded base of plat band and cornice. First-floor level plat band is raised above door to accommodate a former pediment or hood. Ground floor has 2 plai-glazed display windows in voids of former sashes, with rubbed flat arches above. 8-panel door, with 4 upper panels now glazed, recessed in early C19 surround with panelled pilasters and flat hood with moulded cornice. At left is late C19 shopfront with central glazed door below blank panel, and slim pilasters flanking plate-glass closed display windows, with moulded sills and stucco stallrisers with plinths. Fascia flanked by cut consoles, with flat stops to blind box above. Right (east) side elevation shows 'M' shaped gable, with 2 large sash windows on first floor, left and right, and with staircase landing windows of mullion and transom pattern centre right and a side entry ground floor centre left. Projecting half gable of rear outshut, and hip roofed single storey outhouse. Rear elevation has 3 truncated 12-pane sashes at right, narrowed opening in centre with 8-pane sash, and 2 large 12-pane sashes, probably re-set, in projecting outshot. 2 similar openings on ground floor below plat band. Ground floor right has C19 Welsh-slated lean-to extension. Roofs with brick parapet front above moulded brick cornice. Parapeted 'M' shaped gable at right (east) side, hipped roof with half round hip tiles over rear outshots. 3 wood casement dormers to front, outer 2 gabled, centre with segmental arched roof, all lead covered. Single C20 tile-roofed gabled casement dormer at rear right, small box dormer in centre of hip over outshoot at left. 4 brick chimneystacks, left and right, front pair with offset base, all with oversailing courses and earthenware pots. INTERIOR: ground floor opened out across frontage and through

to rear on left (west) beneath C19 lean-to, but position of central passageway marked by cased beams. Staircase hall and rear doorway with raised hood, now internal with later lean-to, with arches with break-front key stones and break-front cornices within. Dogleg stair rises to attics, of close string pattern with C19 octagonal newel with acorn head, but retaining barley sugar twist column-on-urn balusters to first floor, with bobbin balusters and elongated urns above, moulded handrails, and dado with recessed panels and quadrant surrounds. Some cornices and panelled doors on first floor, with elaborate raised and fielded panelling and panelled chimneybreast, and elaborate double wood cornice in first floor outshoot room. Landing and 3 main attic spaces on second floor with separate small north attic, with C18 blank door, above outshut. Double roof with central valley has paired rafters without ridge boards, and assembly marks in late medieval tradition. Basement, with steps with elm treads on brick risers, brick floor and walls, fire recesses but no fireplaces. (Hertfordshire Countryside: Forrester H: Hertford Homes in Queen Anne's Day: Letchworth: 1946-1960: 104-107; Smith JT: English Houses 1200-1800: The Hertfordshire Evidence: London: 1992-: 167, 168; Smith JT: Hertfordshire Houses: Selective Inventory: London: 1993-: 85).

Listing NGR: TL3284112670

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 461330
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Smith, J T, English Houses 1200-1800 The Hertfordshire Evidence, (1994), 167 168
Smith, J T, Hertfordshire Houses Selective Inventory, (1993), 85
'Hertfordshire Countryside' in Hertfordshire Countryside, (1946-1960), 104-107

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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.