12,14 AND 16, FORE STREET
12,14 AND 16, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268929
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 12,14 AND 16, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 12,14 AND 16, FORE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268929
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 12,14 AND 16, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 12,14 AND 16, 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:
- 12,14 AND 16, 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 32646 12551
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212NE FORE STREET
817-1/17/62 (South side)
12/04/73 Nos.12, 14 AND 16
GV II
3 houses, now shops with offices above. Mid C18, rebuilt and
heightened mid C19, early C20 shopfronts on ground floor.
Stucco over brick, rear has red brick laid to Flemish bond to
the ground and first floors, and yellow-brown stock brick in
Flemish bond to second floor, Welsh slated roof above deep
moulded eaves cornice, and red brick chimneystack at left.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 5-bay front. First floor has 5 nearly
flush-set 12-pane sash windows, plat band at second-floor
level, and 5, 6-pane sash windows. Ground floor has bold
stuccoed surrounds to shopfronts at sides and centre, and twin
Tuscan pilasters, raised on plinth, supporting twin profiled
consoles with ogee fronted blocking piece and curved moulded
cornice. Deep fascias with dentil cornices. At left, early C20
timber shopfront with plate glass windows and column mullions
with arcaded heads, having upper lights with multiple closely
spaced mullions. Recessed door at right; right-hand shopfront
late C20 recessed within original surround.
Rear elevation retains 2 flush-set mid C18 sash windows below
segmental arches at right on first floor, with filled voids
for 2 on left discernible. The change of brick above indicates
the raising and rebuilding of the second floor.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: TL3264612551
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461308
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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