20, CASTLE STREET
20, CASTLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268944
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 20, CASTLE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 20, CASTLE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268944
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 20, CASTLE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 20, 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:
- 20, 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 32598 12459
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212SE CASTLE STREET
817-1/20/29 (West side)
12/04/73 No.20
GV II
House, now offices. Mid/late C18 front to slightly earlier
structure, with late C20 alterations. Red brick, Flemish bond,
with some overburnt headers, orange-red dressings, sides and
rear plastered over timber-frame, three quarter hipped old
tiled roof. Central entry plan, 3-bay front.
EXTERIOR: first floor has 2 triple 4:12:4-pane sashes, and
central 12-pane sash, recessed beneath rubbed brick arches.
First floor plat band. Ground floor has 2 triple 4:12:4-pane
sashes. Central recessed 6-panel door with panelled
reveals,architrave surround, doorcase with Tuscan Doric
pilasters, entablature with triglyph frieze and panelled
metopes and flat modillioned moulded cornice. Portland stone
threshold.
Roof with 3 box casement dormers (outer 3-light, central
2-light), square red brick chimneystacks.
Rear outshut of 2 storeys, with weatherboarded upper floor,
linked to large modern rear outshut which is not of special
interest.
INTERIOR: much altered, some C18 cornices, stair with Tuscan
column newels, stick balusters and moulded handrails. Roof
with riven and sawn rafters, thin ridge board.
(Hertfordshire Countryside: Forrester H: Hertford homes in
Georgian days: Letchworth: 1946-1961: 150-152).
Listing NGR: TL3259812459
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461280
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hertfordshire Countryside in Hertfordshire Countryside, (1946-1961), 150-152
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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