Description

HERTFORD

TL3212NE MARKET PLACE
817-1/17/113 (North side)
12/04/73 Nos.7 AND 8
(Formerly Listed as:
MARKET PLACE
Nos.7, 8 AND 9)

GV II

House, now shops, with storage and flats above. Late C16/early
C17, heightened and altered early C19. Timber-framed,
plastered and part stuccoed with masonry lining, and with
hipped Welsh slated roof with broad panelled soffit carried on
slim cut brackets. Rear outshut along Honey Lane has old tiled
roof.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, first and second floors each have 2
flush-set sashes with 12 main panes and narrow margin panes.
Band below second floor sill. Third floor has 2 squat 6-pane
sashes with margin panes. Ground floor recessed below jetty,
with corner door to No.7 in broad architrave, plate glass
display windows above panelled stallrisers. Recessed three
quarter glazed door to No.8 and similar display window, with
consoles supporting continuous fascia at bressumer level,
which has moulded cornice.
Outshut along Honey Lane (formerly No.2) has 2-bay front, with
jettied plastered first floor having flush set 16-pane sash at
left and closed window without glazing bars at right; ground
floor has recessed shopfront with 2 closed plate glass display
windows, central three quarter glazed door and cut profiled
console brackets supporting slender doorhead on underside of
jetty.
INTERIOR: ground floor of No.8 has ogee moulded beam, second
floor with wide elm floorboards, third floor of No.7 has
single attic, building one room deep at this level. No.7 has
exposed beams with chamfer and tongue stops. Extensive
basements with C19 fireplace in front compartment of No.8.
Outshut along Honey Lane has roof with exposed purlins, ceiled
at collar level, rafters not visible.
HISTORICAL NOTE: No.7 and 8 Market Place can be seen in a view
of Hertford Market Place by Thomas Rowlandson, c1800, when
they had jettied gabled roofs above second-floor level, and
elaborated pargeted fronts. The early C19 reconstruction was
very thorough but vestiges of the late medieval structure are
visible, including the jettied front, while the outshut along
Honey Lane, now partly integrated with No.7, retains its late
C16 appearance.

(Forrester H: Timber-framed buildings in Hertford and Ware:
Hitchin: 1964-: 13; Smith JT: Hertfordshire Houses: Selective
Inventory: London: 1993-: 85; Page FM: History of Hertford:
Hertford: 1993-).

Listing NGR: TL3264812611

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559147

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