Manufactory House
MANUFACTORY HOUSE, BELL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1268999
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- Statutory Address:
- MANUFACTORY HOUSE, BELL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1268999
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1996
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANUFACTORY HOUSE, BELL LANE
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MANUFACTORY HOUSE, BELL LANE
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 32659 12534
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212NE BELL LANE
817-1/17/1 (West side)
Manufactory House
GV II
Manufactory and warehouse with cottage in rear yard, now
offices. c1827 (initialled bricks 'GN', 'WN' 1827 on cottage,
and 'RN' 1827 on main building), converted to offices and
extended at rear 1970s. Yellow stock bricks, Flemish bond,
Welsh slated roof with lead roll hips, cast-iron structure.
Open-plan floors, 4-bay facade.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. First floor has 4 multi-light small paned
cast-iron windows beneath segmental arches, half-length
similar windows on second floor, plat band at first-floor
level with raised lettering 'MANUFACTORY HOUSE', ground floor
with 3 windows and modern 3-panel door second bay from left.
Right-hand bay originally had a loading door at first floor
and iron bracket for hoist is still in position. Access to
rear yard through tunnel beneath end of the Bell Lane frontage
of No.18 Fore Street (qv). C20 link to former cottage at rear,
2-storey, all included in listing.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Hertfordshire:
Harmondsworth: 1977-: 189).
Listing NGR: TL3265912534
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461247
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 189
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