Description

HERTFORD

TL3212NW OLD CROSS
817-1/16/137 (East side)
No.4

GV II

House, now shop with residence over. C16, rebuilt C19 and mid
1920s. Timber-framed, brick and stucco exterior, Welsh slated
roof with hipped end, above brick dentil eaves.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 1st and 2nd floors have recessed small
paned sash windows with glazing bars, 2 (one blank) to Old
Cross, 1 on diagonal, and 2 to Mill Bridge return elevation.
Continuous ground floor 1920s shopfront with plate glass
display windows, stuccoed stallriser, slim panelled pilasters
with canted console blocks flanking fascia. Continuous blind
boxes above glazed shop door in splayed recess at right of Old
Cross elevation.
INTERIOR: ground floor has elaborately roll moulded exposed
beams, late C16, with cut ends and cast-iron column supports
behind shopfront, and fireplace arch with heavy timber
bressumer on party wall with No.6 (qv). No timber of this age
and quality visible above on first or second floors. The
property was rebuilt mid/late C19 and again radically
reconstructed when the improved Mill Bridge was realigned in
1926-7.

Listing NGR: TL3248012674

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559100

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)