25-35, FORE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268932
Date first listed:: 02-Jan-1973
List Entry Name:: 25-35, FORE STREET
Statutory Address:: 25-35, FORE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268932
Date first listed:: 02-Jan-1973
List Entry Name:: 25-35, FORE STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 25-35, FORE STREET

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.

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

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 25-35, 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 32726 12610

Details

HERTFORD

TL3212NE FORE STREET 817-1/17/65 (North side) 02/01/73 Nos.25-35 (Odd)

GV II

Range of houses, now shops and offices. Late C17/early C18, altered C19 and C20. Timber-framed, plastered, some masonry lining, brick, laid to English Garden Wall bond to right-hand (east) gable end, weatherboard rear, old tiled 'M' profile double roof, with broad overhanging eaves and cornice, (No.33 front slope has concrete tiles). Brick chimneystacks. EXTERIOR: 7-bay frontage (block truncated at east by 1 bay c1880 for construction of Market Street, and again in mid 1930s by a further bay for road widening), 2 storeys and attics. 4 box dormers with C19 and C20 casements, single C20 gabled casement dormer, and at right single C18 casement dormer with moulded wood cornice and hipped roof. First floor has 7 windows, 2 C19 triple sash windows with plate glass, 3 triple sashes 4:12:4 panes, a canted oriel bay with 4:12:4 paned triple sash, and at right a single 12 pane flush-set sash window. Ground floor No.25 has double-fronted early C20 shopfront with plate glass windows, Nos 27-31 has 1980s triple bow-fronted shop window with glazing bars (based on those in late C19 photographs of the block), No.31 has C19 shopfront with arcaded windows, with early C20 blue tile stallriser and timber fascia with dentil and modillion cornice. No.33 has c1950 multi-paned timber shop window with panelled stallriser, and bold moulded cornice above fascia. Rear has long 1 and 2-storey outshuts, weatherboarded with stuccoed underbuilding. INTERIORS: much altered and opened out on ground floor. No.31 preserves original arrangement of front and rear rooms with central fireplaces, closed string stairs with column newel and stick balusters, rear first-floor room with C18 sash with quadrant bars, attic with C18 plank battened door with strap hinges, roof with much renewal, butt purlin principal structure remains; cellar with red brick walls. Nos 27 and 29 internally rebuilt mid 1980s as savings bank and offices, first floor has exposed wall plate with mortices for studs in rear wall, attics with modern raised ceiling above collars, roof with pegged and halved rafters, rear roof raised to form catslide over enlarged attic rooms. (Forrester H: Timber-framed buildings in Hertford and Ware: Hitchin: 1964-: 23; Smith JT: Hertfordshire Houses: Selective

Inventory: London: 1993-: 84; Green L: Hertford's Past in pictures: Ware: 1993-: 8-12).

Listing NGR: TL3272612610

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 461311
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Forrester, H , Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware, (1964), 23
Green, L, Hertfords Past in Pictures, (1993), 8-12
Smith, J T, Hertfordshire Houses Selective Inventory, (1993), 84

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.