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Gravesons

A Grade II Listed Building in Hertford, Hertfordshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.7966 / 51°47'47"N

Longitude: -0.0777 / 0°4'39"W

OS Eastings: 532661

OS Northings: 212630

OS Grid: TL326126

Mapcode National: GBR KBQ.C66

Mapcode Global: VHGPN.L3TK

Plus Code: 9C3XQWWC+JW

Entry Name: Gravesons

Listing Date: 9 September 1996

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1268865

English Heritage Legacy ID: 461370

ID on this website: 101268865

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 All Saints

Church of England Diocese: St.Albans

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Description



HERTFORD

TL3212NE MAIDENHEAD STREET
817-1/17/106 (South side)
Nos.1 AND 3
Gravesons

GV II

Department store. c1895. Colourwashed brick with stucco
dressings, structural cast-iron ground floor and interior
columns; swept curved Welsh slated roof, with lead flat crown.
Truncated yellow brick chimney at left against rear wall of
Nos 10 & 11 Market Place (qv), and No.8 Salisbury Square (qv).
Bold curved plan and facade sweeps round from Salisbury Square
to Maidenhead Street frontage at right.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. First floor has 6 windows,
plate glazed, with upper transom lights, in timber-frames,
recessed in projecting moulded stucco architraves, with
recessed scalloped panel and moulded cornice above. Between
windows are brick pilasters and recessed panels, with
scalloped ornament at upper level. Above first-floor windows
is swag-ornamented fascia, dentil-modillion course and moulded
cornice. Ground floor has continuous shopfront, its 6 bays not
precisely aligned with first floor above, with slender
cast-iron barleysugar twist columns, with roll moulded bases
and foliated caps, set on plinth blocks. Continuous fascia
with dentil-modillion course and moulded cornice at first
floor sill level. Canted sided timber-framed plate glazed
display cases with arcaded heads and lead flat tops installed
in 1980s between columns; arcaded glazed entrance doors second
bay from right; right of shopfront is door with moulded stucco
architrave surround.
Roof with 2 tall sash dormers with glazed cheeks and
segmental-pedimented lead-covered roofs.
INTERIOR: open-plan to provide uninterrupted retail space, no
distinctive features visible. South side opens into Nos 10 and
11 Market Place (qv) at ground and first-floor levels.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the drapery trade in Hertford was dominated
by the Pollards, Robinsons and Gravesons, all Quaker families,
from the turn of the C18/C19. By the end of the century
Graveson and Robinson had joined forces and built new premises
on the site of Nos 1 & 3 Maidenhead Street.
(Green L: Hertford's Past in pictures: Ware: 1993-: 112-3).


Listing NGR: TL3266112630

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