Number 17 Including Front Railings
NUMBER 17 INCLUDING FRONT RAILINGS, 17, CASTLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268943
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Number 17 Including Front Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 17 INCLUDING FRONT RAILINGS, 17, CASTLE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268943
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Number 17 Including Front Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 17 INCLUDING FRONT RAILINGS, 17, CASTLE 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:
- NUMBER 17 INCLUDING FRONT RAILINGS, 17, CASTLE 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 32621 12465
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212SE CASTLE STREET
817-1/20/33 (East side)
12/04/73 No.17
including front railings
GV II
House, now offices and flat. Late C17, altered and extended
early C19 and C20. Stucco, and brown and colourwashed brick,
Flemish bond, old tiled roof with parapeted ends. Welsh
slated, hipped over large rear outshut, stuccoed and yellow
brick chimneystacks.
EXTERIOR: first floor and ground floor front have 3 wood
casement windows with Gothick lancet traceried heads, 3:2:3
lights, first floor plat band, basement windows enclosed by
railings with cast-iron fleur-de-lys heads and lotus bud
shafts. Right (south) flank elevation to Queens Road has brick
outer gable wall, with crow stepping and slate copings, and
forward projecting 1 storey castellated porch, stuccoed with
dripmould raised over Tudor arched doorway with recessed twin
leaf moulded panelled and nailed doors. 3 gabled casement
dormers.
Rear outshut with large 2-storey canted bay window with
flush-set 12-pane sashes on first floor and Gothick tracery
headed French windows with margin glazing on ground floor.
INTERIOR: ground floor much altered in conversion to surgery
in 1950s; west front room has C18 panelling with double cyma
wood cornice, and C19 fireplace with fluted pilaster strips
and paterae. East middle room, subdivided, retains plaster
coved cornice with reeded band on ceiling. Rear former dining
room has higher ceiling and elaborate cornice with lotus buds
and flattened mouldings. Basement with brick floor and brick
walls, with reset medieval timber beams. Stair to first floor
from porch entrance from Queen Street, early C20 with
elongated swelling column balusters and hardwood rail. Attics
in 3 sections with C17/C18 panelled and plank doors with 'H'
hinges, ceiled at collar level, roof not accessible.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: cast-iron, arrowhead area railings to
front.
Listing NGR: TL3262112465
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461279
- 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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