Description

1. HART STREET
5355 (South Side)

Nos 40 & 40A
(The Elizabethan House)
and No 42 (Formerly listed
as No 40 Elizabethan
House)

SU 7582 1/36 25.1.51.

II GV

2.
C16 and later, timber framed with plaster and painted brick infill. Double
span, hipped, old tiled roof. 3 storeys, 5 windows, sashes with late
C19 glazing. Ground floor has 2 early C19 shop windows under cornices.
Eastern one incorporates door and has dentil cornice, entablature and
pilasters. Western window simpler, with pilasters. Central door with
architrave and small flathood. Side red brick and flint wall to east
provides an important link with the Old School House at rear (q.v.)

Nos 2 to 8 (even) Nos 14 to 36 (even) including Adam House, and Nos 40
44, and gates and piers 48, 50, The Old School House and the Rectory Garden
Wall form a group with Nos 5 to 39 (odd), the Drinking Fountain, the Parish
Church of St Mary and the raised pavement at the east end of Hart Street.

Listing NGR: SU7623182640

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26299108

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
• 
  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)