24, CASTLE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268947
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1950
List Entry Name:: 24, CASTLE STREET
Statutory Address:: 24, CASTLE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268947
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1950
List Entry Name:: 24, CASTLE STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 24, 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:: 24, 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 32586 12446

Details

HERTFORD

TL3212SE CASTLE STREET 817-1/20/30 (North side) 10/02/50 No.24

GV II

Castle gatehouse and lodge, now converted and extended as solicitors' offices. c1800, arch infilled and building extended westwards early C20. Yellow-brown stock brick, Flemish bond, with red dressings, Welsh slated, and lead flat roofs concealed behind castellated parapets with stone copings and red brick Tudor style clustered shafted octagonal chimneys. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. The right-hand section with 2 octagonal turrets was the gateway to the castle, and had a high central Tudor arch, infilled c1904, and replaced by a 4-light wood casement window, with arched Tudor heads, in the same style as the original, of 2 lights on the first floor above. The turrets have machicolations and a Lombard frieze. To left is former lodge, with a recessed 2-storey link with 3-light windows ground and first floors, then a higher block, 2 left-hand bays original, with two 3-light windows on first floor, ground floor with 4-light window and projecting porch, yellow brick with red dressings, with Tudor arched opening and castellated parapet. Building extended 3 bays in line further west c1904, first floor with 3 windows, one, now centre, double length, 2 below, with basement window beneath longer stair window. Rear elevation much altered with modern windows. INTERIOR: much altered during office conversion. Room above arch has vaulted ceiling; stair in 1904 extensions close string dogleg plan with narrow open well, balusters with pulvinated square columns and newels, moulded oak handrail. Together with No.20 (qv) this building is the headquarters of Longmores the solicitors, who as a family had served the Borough as Town Clerks, and the County Council over several generations since the 1830s. (Hertfordshire Countryside: Forrester H: Hertford homes in Georgian days: Letchworth: 1946-1961: 150-152; Green L: Hertford's Past in pictures: Ware: 1993-: 21).

Listing NGR: TL3258612446

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Legacy System number:: 461283
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Green, L, Hertfords Past in Pictures, (1993), 21
'Hertfordshire Countryside' in Hertfordshire Countryside, (1946-1961), 150-152

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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.