Description

HERTFORD

TL3212NE PARLIAMENT SQUARE
817-1/17/154 (East side)
12/04/73 Nos.5 AND 7

GV II

Houses, now shops and offices. Late C15 (No.7) partly
overbuilt by C18 structure (No.5), with C19 alterations and
shopfronts. Timber-framed and plastered below old tiled roofs,
and wide eaves with moulded cornice.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics (No.5); 2 storeys (No.7), which
is a 2-bay structure, possibly a cross wing to a previous
building on the site of No.9, to right (east) (qv). First
floor has 2 flush-set C19 sash windows with plain glazing and
architrave surrounds. Single C19 sash window with divided
glazing set lower in gable end of No.7 at right. Ground floor
C19 shopfront to No.5 with central recessed doorway with
half-glazed door, plate glass display windows in
timber-frames, pilaster surround surmounted by moulded
consoles flanking fascia, with cornice/blind box immediately
below first-floor window sills. At right, shopfront of No.7
recessed beneath jettied first floor, recessed door at left,
timber-framed closed window, flanking pilasters, fascia fixed
to bressumer. Roof with 1 gabled casement dormer (No.5); gable
facing street (No.7).
At rear, No.5 has long 2 storeyed outshoot, timber-framed and
plastered with old tiled roof.
INTERIOR: exposed studs within outshoot of No.5, which has 2
rooms with a central chimneystack. Exposed studs indicating 2
bay structure on first floor of No.7, ceiled at collar level,
with no access to roof structure.
(Forrester H: Timber-framed buildings in Hertford and Ware:
Hitchin: 1964-: 12; Smith JT: English Houses 1200-1800: The
Hertfordshire Evidence: London: 1992-: 149).

Listing NGR: TL3262012525

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559077

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Recommended Books

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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5