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18, the Wash

A Grade II Listed Building in Hertford, Hertfordshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.7967 / 51°47'48"N

Longitude: -0.0795 / 0°4'46"W

OS Eastings: 532537

OS Northings: 212641

OS Grid: TL325126

Mapcode National: GBR KBQ.BQL

Mapcode Global: VHGPN.K3VG

Plus Code: 9C3XQWWC+M6

Entry Name: 18, the Wash

Listing Date: 9 September 1996

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1268695

English Heritage Legacy ID: 461536

ID on this website: 101268695

Location: Hertford, East Hertfordshire, SG14

County: Hertfordshire

District: East Hertfordshire

Civil Parish: Hertford

Built-Up Area: Hertford

Traditional County: Hertfordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire

Church of England Parish: Hertford St Andrew with St Nicholas

Church of England Diocese: St.Albans

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Description



HERTFORD

TL3212NE THE WASH
817-1/17/234 (East side)
No.18

GV II

Former seedsmans' retail department and offices, now shop with
offices above. c1860, altered late 1920s. Stucco over yellow
stock brick, hipped Welsh slated roof, with yellow brick stack
with oversailing courses.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Italianate style with 3 windows. First
and second floors have wooden sashes with central glazing
bars, recessed in moulded stucco architrave surrounds, with
aprons below second-floor windows. Rusticated quoins at left
and right. Large blank panel with moulded frame in spandrel
between first and second-floor windows. Ground floor has
shopfront, with Tuscan pilasters left and right, and 2
intermediate antae subdividing 3 bays. Arcaded timber shop
windows left and right above panelled stallriser; 3/4 glazed
timber door with diagonal bars forming two crosses, fixed
sidelights and fanlight subdivided into 7 narrow panes.
Triglyphs at left and right of main fascia, moulded cornice
above, with breaks at ends.
Yellow brick east elevation faces Maidenhead Yard has 3
windows first floor, and 4 windows second floor, with moulded
architrave surrounds and aprons. Recessed entrance door ground
floor.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: built as the retail departmental offices for
McMullens' seed warehouse in Maidenhead Yard (qv), this
building had its previously yellow brick front remodelled with
stucco and a new shopfront after the realigned Mill Bridge was
created in 1927.
(Green L: Hertford's Past in pictures: Ware: 1993-: 18).


Listing NGR: TL3253712641

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