25, PARLIAMENT SQUARE, 13, CASTLE STREET
13, CASTLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268940
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 25, PARLIAMENT SQUARE, 13, CASTLE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 13, CASTLE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268940
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 25, PARLIAMENT SQUARE, 13, CASTLE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 13, CASTLE STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- 25, PARLIAMENT SQUARE
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:
- 13, CASTLE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 25, PARLIAMENT SQUARE
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 32624 12483
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212SE CASTLE STREET
817-1/20/32 (East side)
12/04/73 No.13
GV II
Includes: No.25 PARLIAMENT SQUARE.
One building, houses, now shops. C16, substantially rebuilt
early C18, extended and altered C19. Timber-framed, plastered,
old tiled roofs with moulded eaves cornice at front and
unequal gabled outshuts at rear.
EXTERIOR: first floor has 2 flush-set 12-pane sash windows
with architrave surrounds, with plastered front divided into
large raised panels. Jettied first floor with C19 shopfronts
on ground floor below, and fascias on bressumer. Closed plate
glass display windows, half-glazed doors, with bolection
surrounded lower panels and slim fanlights. Door to No.25
Parliament Square has slim pilaster surround with incised
grooves. To roof 2 dormers with margin-glazed windows, and
hipped roofs.
INTERIORS: timber framing exposed inside both shops; in No.13
Castle Street downward curved bracing indicates C16 origin of
building, which incorporates a lower 2 bay outshut with a
pegged rafter roof. No.25 Parliament Square has a central
chamfered beam with tongue stop above ground floor, steep
winder stair alongside fireplace and party wall, wide boarded
cambered first floor, corner fireplace.
Listing NGR: TL3262412483
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461276
- 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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