The Old Boot

THE OLD BOOT, 4, MARKET PLACE

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1347171
Date first listed:
27-Aug-1971
Statutory Address:
THE OLD BOOT, 4, MARKET PLACE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1347171
Date first listed:
27-Aug-1971
Statutory Address 1:
THE OLD BOOT, 4, MARKET PLACE

Location

Statutory Address:
THE OLD BOOT, 4, MARKET PLACE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
St. Albans (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TL 14670 07139

Details

MARKET PLACE 1. (East Side) 1582 No 4 (The Old Boot) TL 1407 SE 9/81 I GV

2. Formerly Nos 2 & 3. C16 building of irregular plan, with alterations. Plaste+ed front to street under 2 wide gables crossing steeply-pitched, tiled roof. 2 storeys and attic, 2 windows. One attic window in each gable, one 1st floor window beneath, all casements in slightly projecting box frames. Renewed, projecting ground floor under slated, pent roof with modern public house front. North return shows 3 tall, outside chimney stacks, restored, and a jumble of roofs ending in a C18 weatherboarded building with high pitched, tiled roof. RCHM VCH NMR

Nos 1, 3, 2 and 4 form a group with No 18 High Street.

Listing NGR: TL1467007139

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163375
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Sources

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Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1914)

Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)

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Ordnance survey map of The Old Boot

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