Morton House
MORTON HOUSE, 3, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348126
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Morton House
- Statutory Address:
- MORTON HOUSE, 3, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348126
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Morton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MORTON HOUSE, 3, FORE 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:
- MORTON HOUSE, 3, FORE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Welwyn Hatfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hatfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 23450 08540
Details
TL 2308 HATFIELD Old Hatfield FORE STREET 15/106 (south side)
- No 3 (Morton House)
GV II
Early-mid C18, (formerly known as Nos 3 and 3A). Improved for Mr F W Speaight by A Winter Rose C1911. Timber frame construc- tion, rear range possibly earlier. Red brick front of 7 flush sash windows with thick glazing bars in moulded frames, 3 on slightly recessed right hand portion. Parapet and 4 box dormers. 2 storeys and attics. Gauged brick windows lintels. 2 stuccoed floor bands. Left hand portion has good central doorcase, probably replacement: added reveals and lushly carved scrolled brackets carrying flat hood. Adam style fanlight. Flush panel door. Right hand portion has tall door surround with half glazed door, probably C1911. Basement windows with C18 wrought iron grills. Interior has large staircase hall on left ground floor, the staircase probably taken from elsewhere. Exposed timber frame to walls. Front right room with bolection-moulded fireplace surround and an overmantel with a segmental pediment carried on winged cupids (Mervyn Macartney, Recent English Domestic Architecture, Vol 5 (C1913)).
Listing NGR: TL2345008540
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 158369
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Macartney, M, Recent English Domestic Architecture, (1911)
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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