2-10, FORE STREET
2-10, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268927
- Date first listed:
- 02-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 2-10, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 2-10, FORE STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-06-06
- Reference:
- IOE01/03119/30
- Rights:
- © Mr A. Gude. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268927
- Date first listed:
- 02-Apr-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 2-10, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2-10, 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:
- 2-10, 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 32632 12546
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212NE FORE STREET
817-1/17/60 (South side)
12/04/73 Nos.2-10 (Even)
(Formerly Listed as:
FORE STREET
Nos.2 AND 4)
(Formerly Listed as:
FORE STREET
Nos.6-10 (Even))
GV II
Houses and shops. Early C19, with Late C19 alterations. Stucco
over brickwork, brown stock brickwork, laid to English bond,
at rear, and long plastered and weatherboarded outshoot behind
Nos 6-10. Welsh slated roofs above deep moulded cornice, and
brown brick chimneys.
EXTERIOR: 6-bay facade, cranked in centre to follow street
frontage. First floor has 6 recessed 12-pane sash windows,
spaced 3:1:2, and stucco plat bands at first and second-floor
levels. Ground floor has elaborate mid C19 shop window at
left, with central recessed entrance with twin three-quarter
glazed 6-panel doors, with fanlight above, and glazed side
lights. Entrance and shop windows flanked by slim pilasters.
Multi-pane wooden windows with panelled stallrisers, and
traceried cast-iron ventilation strip at top, and running
across head of sidelights and doorway; broad fascia with
moulded cornice. Central recessed 6-panel door flanked by
quarter Doric fluted columns; semicircular fanlight with
radiating glazing bars above.
To right is late C19 shopfront, with recessed glazed door,
canted display windows, with plate glass in wood frames, and
panelled stallrisers, flanked by slim pilasters surmounted by
paired cut consoles. Fascia with cornice and blind box.
At rear, No.4 has sash windows with gothick tracery, on ground
and first floors, and a long landing window. Irregular
fenestration to 2 and 3-storey outshoots includes a Yorkshire
sash window second floor.
INTERIOR: ground floor at left opened out to form restaurant.
(Green L: Hertford's Past in pictures: Ware: 1993-: 114).
Listing NGR: TL3263212546
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461306
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Green, L, Hertfords Past in Pictures, (1993), 114
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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