18, FORE STREET
18, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268931
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 18, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 18, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268931
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 18, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 18, 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:
- 18, 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 32655 12550
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212NE FORE STREET
817-1/17/64 (South side)
12/04/73 No.18
GV II
House with ground floor shop. Mid C19, with C20 alterations.
Stucco front over brickwork, brown stock brickwork, laid to
Flemish bond, with stucco dressings and ground floor to
left-hand (east) flank elevation to Bell Lane. Welsh slated
roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 2 bay facade to Fore Street, 7 bays to
Bell Lane subdivided by pilasters as 1:3:3 bays. First floor
has 2 recessed 12-pane sash windows, with frieze and cornice
heads supported on consoles; second floor has 2 recessed
6-pane sashes, with plain frieze and moulded cornice above.
First floor to Bell Lane has stucco pilasters, with caps
matching the band and frieze cornice. 7 first-floor windows
recessed in brick reveals with stucco heads as on Fore Street
elevation and stucco sills; 7 second-floor windows, under
rubbed brick flat arches, with brick reveals and stucco sills.
Plat band at first-floor level covered by shop fascia on
right-hand 3 bays to Bell Lane, and access Fore Street
frontage. Early C20 shopfront, with corner entrance, recessed
behind supporting Tuscan Doric columns raised on tall plinth.
Arcaded timber windows in same general style as on No.16 (qv);
canted fascia with dentils and moulded cornice above. To left
of shopfront on Bell Lane ground floor has 2 recessed 12-pane
sashes, and central arched window, under rubbed brick flat
arch, giving access to rear yard. Rear elevation timber-framed
and stuccoed over brick (partly C20 Fletton) ground floor.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: TL3265512550
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461310
- 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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