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88-96, Fore Street

A Grade II Listed Building in Hertford, Hertfordshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.7963 / 51°47'46"N

Longitude: -0.0758 / 0°4'33"W

OS Eastings: 532787

OS Northings: 212602

OS Grid: TL327126

Mapcode National: GBR KBQ.CMG

Mapcode Global: VHGPN.M3RS

Plus Code: 9C3XQWWF+GM

Entry Name: 88-96, Fore Street

Listing Date: 10 February 1950

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1268906

English Heritage Legacy ID: 461327

ID on this website: 101268906

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 FORE STREET
817-1/17/81 (South side)
10/02/50 Nos.88-96 (Even)

II

House, now offices. Early C18, heightened early C19,ground
floor remodelled early C20 with mid C20 shopfront. Dark plum
red brick, laid to Flemish bond, with cherry red dressings,
stuccoed rear elevation, tiled roof, above wide overhanging
eaves with slender bracket modillions and panelled soffit.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 7-bay front, with narrow central bay.
First floor has 6 flush-set 12-pane sash windows beneath
rubbed brick flat arches, and quoins in cherry red brick. A
central fielded panel is set in raised moulded border, with a
moulded cornice band above window. Second floor with 6 lower
flush-set 12-pane sashes. Ground floor remodelled but retains
vestige of former continuous first-floor level moulded plat
band visible at extreme right and left. Wide plate-glass
display windows between blue engineering brick piers, central
plate glass doors, with deep, almost full width fascia above.
The original ground floor was raised above a basement, with
sash windows, and a bold pedimented doorcase immediately right
of centre.
INTERIOR: much altered and opened out with ground floor
lowered to street level across front range of double-depth
plan. Stair at rear renewed 1950s, west and first-floor room
has double cyma wood cornice, window seats, but no shutters,
and fireplace has been removed. This was possibly the
principal bedroom. No features of note visible on second
floor.
(Smith JT: Hertfordshire Houses: Selective Inventory: London:
1993-: 85; Green L: Hertford's Past in pictures: Ware: 1993-:
15).


Listing NGR: TL3278712602

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