NUMBER 17 INCLUDING FRONT RAILINGS

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:: NUMBER 17 INCLUDING FRONT RAILINGS, 17, CASTLE STREET

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Official list entry

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

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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

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Legacy System number:: 461279
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.