The Sportsman Public House
THE SPORTSMAN PUBLIC HOUSE, 117, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268914
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Sportsman Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE SPORTSMAN PUBLIC HOUSE, 117, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268914
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- The Sportsman Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SPORTSMAN PUBLIC HOUSE, 117, 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:
- THE SPORTSMAN PUBLIC HOUSE, 117, 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 32878 12691
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212NE FORE STREET
817-1/17/89 (North side)
10/02/50 No.117
The Sportsman Public House
(Formerly Listed as:
FORE STREET
(North side)
No.117
The Blue Boy)
GV II
House, now public house. Mid/late C18 with C20 alterations and
extensions. Timber-framed, stucco with red brick angle
pilasters laid to Flemish bond, old tiled roof with lead roll
hips and moulded eaves cornice, and Welsh slated roof over
front pediment. Red brick chimneys with oversailing courses,
earthenware and terracotta pots.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic in centre. Centre staircase
plan, much altered internally. Front elevation has first floor
with 3 narrow 8-pane sashes, nearly flush set with moulded
architrave surrounds, the central windows masked by inn sign.
Ground floor with 2 similar wider 12-pane windows. Central
doorway with 6 fielded panelled door, upper 2 panels glazed,
recessed in wood doorcase with panelled Tuscan pilasters,
entablature and pediment. Large pediment to attic, with
moulded surround, and central attic casement window with small
panes. Long rear outshoot along South Street, single storey
and attics with 5 small sash windows and 2 hipped dormers with
sashes. Building altered externally and internally and
extended in 1981.
INTERIOR: bar spaces reconstructed and have late C20 fittings.
Interior above ground floor not inspected.
(Smith JT: English Houses 1200-1800: The Hertfordshire
Evidence: London: 1992-: 185).
Listing NGR: TL3287812691
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461335
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Smith, J T, English Houses 1200-1800 The Hertfordshire Evidence, (1994), 185
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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