32 AND 34, FORE STREET
32 AND 34, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268935
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 32 AND 34, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 32 AND 34, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268935
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 32 AND 34, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 32 AND 34, 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:
- 32 AND 34, 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 32693 12568
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212NE FORE STREET
817-1/17/68 (South side)
12/04/73 Nos.32 AND 34
GV II
Inn (part of the former 'White Swan Inn' with Nos 28-30 and
No.5 Church Street (qv)) now shop. C17, refronted early C19
when roof raised at front. Timber-framed and stuccoed, Welsh
slated roof, with old tiles at rear.
EXTERIOR: 3-storey, 4-bay front (2 structural bays). First and
second floors have 4 flush-set 12-pane sash windows with
architrave surrounds, spaced 2:2, those above of squatter
proportions. Ground floor has late C19 full width shopfront,
plate glass display window with moulded mullions, recessed
entrance at left, and full width canted fascia with cornice,
between slim cut consoles. Long rear outshut of little
architectural interest.
INTERIOR: ground floor opened out but timber beams visible in
ceiling and on first floor, roof not accessible, and most of
structure concealed.
(Smith JT: English Houses 1200-1800: The Hertfordshire
Evidence: London: 1992-: 151, FIGS 247, 248; Smith JT:
Hertfordshire Houses: Selective Inventory: London: 1993-: 84).
Listing NGR: TL3269312568
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461314
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Smith, J T, English Houses 1200-1800 The Hertfordshire Evidence, (1994), 151
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.
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