THE OLD PEST HOUSE

THE OLD PEST HOUSE, BYDE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268981
Date first listed:: 12-Apr-1973
List Entry Name:: THE OLD PEST HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE OLD PEST HOUSE, BYDE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268981
Date first listed:: 12-Apr-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: THE OLD PEST HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE OLD PEST HOUSE, BYDE 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:: THE OLD PEST HOUSE, BYDE 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 32091 13227

Details

HERTFORD

TL3213SW BYDE STREET, Bengeo 817-1/15/275 (West side) 12/04/73 The Old Pest House (Formerly Listed as: FARQUHAR STREET The Pest House)

II

House, built as isolation hospital. Mid C18, altered and embellished late C19. Red brick, Flemish bond, old tiled roof with brick parapeted ends, and half Dutch gables at rear. Elaborate brick chimneystacks left and right with moulded bands and oversailing caps. Central raised tilehung flat-roofed rear extension above lower slope of low swept-slip roof. EXTERIOR: first floor has outer 3-light, centre 2-light small-panel iron casement windows with projecting frames and moulded embattled heads raised on cut profiled corner brackets. Plat band at first-floor level. Ground floor has 2 projecting moulded mullion and transom oriel bays with small-paned iron casements, below old tile lean-to roofs, with curved plastered spandrels below. Central 9-panel hardwood door, upper 3-panels glazed with leaded light, with tiled open-gabled and lean-to hood raised on braced brackets. Small projecting windows on north gable, modern hip-roofed on south. 3 attic dormers at front with small-panel iron casements, outer 2 with half-hipped, centre with hipped roof. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: the Old Pest House was built in 1763 as an isolation hospital against smallpox by Thomas Dimsdale (1712-1800) who lived at Port Hill House (qv), and the plot adjoined his garden. Dimsdale purchased an extensive estate in the area. Port Hill House was known as 'The Inoculation House'. (Turnor L: History of Hertford: Hertford: 1830-: 166-9; Green L: Hertford's Past in Pictures: Ware: 1993-: 39, 162; Page FM: History of Hertford: Hertford: 1993-: 118-120; Hertfordshire Countryside: Roberts E: Thomas Dimsdale and the Victory over Smallpox: -1980: 20-1).

Listing NGR: TL3209113227

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 461273
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Green, L, Hertfords Past in Pictures, (1993), 39 162
Page, F M, History of Hertford, (1993), 118-120
Turnor, L , History of Hertford, (1830), 166-169
'Hertfordshire Countryside' in Hertfordshire Countryside, (1980), 20-21

Legal

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