Description

HERTFORD

TL3212NW OLD CROSS
817-1/16/140 (East side)
12/04/73 No.8
(Formerly Listed as:
OLD CROSS
Nos.6 AND 8)

GV II

Shop, formerly house. Late C16, with C18 and C19 alterations.
Timber-framed, plastered and colourwashed below old tiled roof
with twin gables having heavy barge boards to front. Large red
chimneystack with 5 diagonally set shafts and oversailing laps
at rear above long outshoot.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. First floor has 2
lattice-glazed casement windows, with 1 small wood casement
dormer, set high in left gable, right gable has 1 lattice
casement window, with applied studding. Ground floor has
6-panel door with upper 2 glazed, under flat hood, at left,
and early C20 shopfront with full length plate glass display
windows subdivided with slender mullions, and three quarter
length glazed entrance door right centre. At right is
carriageway with pair of boarded doors, with wicket in
right-hand leaf.
Long 2-storey timber-framed and plastered outshoot, partly
underbuilt in brick and stuccoed on ground floor. Carriageway
weatherboarded with glazed entrance door, with architrave
surround and hood on consoles.
INTERIOR: ground floor front has exposed beam in ceiling and
large fireplace on wall with red brick jambs. Rear room now
opened out with mortices for studs and 3-light wooden mullion
window visible in ceiling, with additional C18 bay, and later
C19 end bay added to form outshoot. First floor rear room has
3 light unglazed wooden mullion window. C18 newel stair
alongside chimneystack. Attic has red brick arched fireplace.
Roof rafters exposed, halved and pegged rafters with modern
collars, pegged rafters in gables.
Together with No.6 (qv) this formed the original premises of
Beckwith and Son, the Hertford antique dealers in the late
C19. Although formerly listed with No.6 as one item, two
distinct buildings are involved.
(Forrester H: Timber-framed buildings in Hertford and Ware:
Hitchin: 1964-: 17; Green L: Hertford's Past in pictures:
Ware: 1993-: 117-142).

Listing NGR: TL3248412679

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559103

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)