121-129, FORE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268916
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1950
List Entry Name:: 121-129, FORE STREET
Statutory Address:: 121-129, FORE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268916
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: 121-129, FORE STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 121-129, FORE STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 121-129, FORE STREET

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County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Hertford
National Grid Reference:: TL 32932 12714

Details

HERTFORD

TL3212NE FORE STREET 817-1/17/91 (North side) 10/02/50 Nos.121-129 (Odd) (Formerly Listed as: FORE STREET Staff Quarters, Christ's Hospital)

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Girls' school, subsequently staff quarters, now subdivided as 5 houses in single terrace. 1778, with C19 rear extensions and later alterations. Brown brick with cherry red dressings, old tiled roof. Classroom with accommodation in wings, now subdivided as separate units. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics. Front elevation has 12 first floor recessed sash windows, 6 in each wing, alternating single and triple, with glazing bars, beneath red rubbed flat arches. Ground floor with doorways below single sashes, and triple-light sashes as first floor. Projecting plat band at first-floor level. 2 floors (Nos 121 & 123) with 3-light fanlights and flat hoods to left, 2 similar doors with trelliswork porches and coved lead roofs to right. Centre bay of front has large Venetian window to former classroom on first floor, triple sashes, 12:20:12-pane with arched top in centre and radiating bars, beneath rubbed red brick flat and semicircular arches. Niches to left and right with statues of Bluecoat girls; central triple sash windows on ground floor; attic pediment with central lunette. Rear elevation altered by single storey brick hip-roofed projections left and right alternating with raised flat-roofed extensions on first floor. Centre has 2-bay former schoolrooms, single storey with attics, brick with old tiled roofs with large gabled dormer at left and gabled projection at right. 2 large multi-paned triple light Venetian windows with brick rubbed arches and stone keyblocks. Ground floor has projecting brick porch offset right of centre with red semicircular arched doorway, with late C20 battened door. Half glazed door with margin glazing in left gable, with attic lunette with radiating bars. Roof with 8 casement dormers with moulded cornices and lead cheeks and flat roofs with parapeted gable ends, left and right, moulded wood eaves cornice, central pediment front and rear, with 5 brick chimney stacks, at ends, and along ridge with oversailing courses and earthenware pots. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: although Christ's Hospital purchased the

Hertford site north of Fore Street in 1683, the girls' school was not built until 1778 as a self-contained block, with the boys continuing to use the major part of the site until the move to Horsham at the turn of the 19th century. The girls' block had been extended in the 19th century by addition of the rear schoolrooms. After construction of the new dormitory blocks in 1904-6, the former girls' school was used as staff accommodation until 1986, after which it was converted to 5 residential units. (Turnor L: History of Hertford: Hertford: 1830-: 323-331; Victoria History of the Counties of England: Hertfordshire: London: 1902-1912: 491; Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England): An Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire: London: 1910-: 113-4; Hope Bagenal: The Georgian and Post Georgian Buildings of Hertford: 1929-: 10-11; Hertfordshire Countryside: Morrison J: Bluecoats in Hertfordshire: Letchworth: 1946-1954: 62-3; Hertfordshire Countryside: Forrester H: Hertford homes in Georgian days: Letchworth: 1946-1961: 150-152; Hertfordshire Countryside: Moodey G: Georgian brickwork of the choicest sort: Letchworth: 1946-1973: 26-7; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Hertfordshire: Harmondsworth: 1977-: 188; Page FM: History of Hertford: Hertford: 1993-: 58,59,97,122,125-6).

Listing NGR: TL3293212714

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 461337
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Bagenal, H, The Georgian and Post Georgian Buildings of Hertford, (1929), 10-11
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1902), 491
Page, F M, History of Hertford, (1993), 58 59 97
Page, F M, History of Hertford, (1993), 122 125-6
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 188
Turnor, L , History of Hertford, (1830), 323-331
'Hertfordshire Countryside' in Hertfordshire Countryside, (1946-1973), 26-27
'Hertfordshire Countryside' in Hertfordshire Countryside, (1946-1954), 62-63
'Hertfordshire Countryside' in Hertfordshire Countryside, (1946-1961), 150-152
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)

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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.