24, CASTLE STREET
24, CASTLE STREET
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- 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
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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