Description

HERTFORD

TL3212SE CASTLE STREET
817-1/20/32 (East side)
12/04/73 No.13

GV II

Includes: No.25 PARLIAMENT SQUARE.
One building, houses, now shops. C16, substantially rebuilt
early C18, extended and altered C19. Timber-framed, plastered,
old tiled roofs with moulded eaves cornice at front and
unequal gabled outshuts at rear.
EXTERIOR: first floor has 2 flush-set 12-pane sash windows
with architrave surrounds, with plastered front divided into
large raised panels. Jettied first floor with C19 shopfronts
on ground floor below, and fascias on bressumer. Closed plate
glass display windows, half-glazed doors, with bolection
surrounded lower panels and slim fanlights. Door to No.25
Parliament Square has slim pilaster surround with incised
grooves. To roof 2 dormers with margin-glazed windows, and
hipped roofs.
INTERIORS: timber framing exposed inside both shops; in No.13
Castle Street downward curved bracing indicates C16 origin of
building, which incorporates a lower 2 bay outshut with a
pegged rafter roof. No.25 Parliament Square has a central
chamfered beam with tongue stop above ground floor, steep
winder stair alongside fireplace and party wall, wide boarded
cambered first floor, corner fireplace.

Listing NGR: TL3262412483

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559209

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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