60 AND 64, FORE STREET
60 AND 64, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268938
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 60 AND 64, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 60 AND 64, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268938
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 60 AND 64, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 60 AND 64, 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:
- 60 AND 64, 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 32731 12565
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212NE FORE STREET
817-1/17/71 (South side)
12/04/73 Nos.60 AND 64
(Formerly Listed as:
FORE STREET
Nos.44, 46 AND 64)
GV II
House, now ground floor shop with flats above to rear. C18,
refronted early C19. Timber-framed, with stuccoed front and
plastered rear, and long black-weatherboarded rear outshut.
Old tiled roofs, concealed by parapet at front, square red
brick chimneystack at right (west), plastered stack at rear.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 2-bay front elevation. First and second
floors each with 2 slightly recessed 12-pane sash windows with
architrave surrounds. Flush panel bordered by incised channels
with Greek key ornament above first-floor windows. Plat band
at second-floor level. Recessed panels above second-floor
windows, then band with moulded cornice and blocking
course/parapet above. Ground floor has early C19 shopfront
with bow window (now plain glazed) over later red granite
stallriser, with recessed three quarter margin glazed door at
left set below fanlight with painted ornamental glass.
Panelled pilaster outer surround and fascia below cornice,
with C20 fascia board above.
The rear of the building is plastered with a hipped roof and
casement windows, above a long rear outshut, timber-framed and
black-weatherboarded with casement windows on first floor,
previously stabling with loft over, and approached through the
former carriageway (now blocked) beneath Nos 44 & 46
immediately to the right (west, not included). The outshut
includes Nos 60 and 64; the latter now includes storage and
garaging at ground-floor level, with 2 flats at first-floor
level, and 2 flats on first and second floors of the frontage
block of No.64.
INTERIOR: of shop contains C19 fittings.
HISTORICAL NOTE: this building has been used by Sheffield
Chemists since 1804, although the shopfront and facade appear
to be of slightly later dates c1820-30.
No.60 is included in the list for the first time.
(Hertfordshire Countryside: Moodey G: Georgian brickwork of
the choicest sort: Letchworth: 1946-1973: 28).
Listing NGR: TL3273112565
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461317
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hertfordshire Countryside in Hertfordshire Countryside, (1946-1973), 28
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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