61 Fore Street

61, Fore Street

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1268939
Date first listed:
09-Sept-1996
List Entry Name:
61 Fore Street
Statutory Address:
61, Fore Street

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1268939
Date first listed:
09-Sept-1996
List Entry Name:
61 Fore Street
Statutory Address 1:
61, 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
61, 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 32790 12631

Details

TL3212NE
817-1/17/72

HERTFORD
FORE STREET (north side)
No. 61

GV
II
Shop with flat over. Mid C19, with C20 alterations. Red brick,laid to Flemish bond, with blue header diaperwork on first floor, polychrome yellow and blue band at second-floor level, with stone dressings around windows. Old tiled roof above moulded brick gabled half dormer at left, and similarly detailed projecting gable at right. Brick chimney at left, chimney at right has four tall ornamental Tudor style cream terracotta pots

EXTERIOR: two storeys and attic, one bay at left, with gabled projection at right. Free Jacobean style. First floor has two recessed three-light sash windows with stone lintels and dripmoulds above, and stone splay-chamfered sills. Similarly detailed single-light window in left flank of projecting bay; second floor has a single and a double-light sash similarly detailed. Ornamental terracotta circular reliefs with heads of Queen Victoria and Elizabeth I left and right of left-hand window, and moulded splayed brick band below first floor sills. Ground floor has carriageway at left, with boarded doors with moulded top rail, and wicket in right-hand leaf; C20 shopfront with 24-pane timber window and recessed glazed door, and fascia projecting to line of right-hand bay above.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TL3279012631

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
461318
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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