Forecourt to County Hall Including Bas Relief Drum, Lamp Posts, Boundary Marker is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. Forecourt. 13 related planning applications.
Forecourt to County Hall Including Bas Relief Drum, Lamp Posts, Boundary Marker
- WRENN ID
- high-wattle-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Forecourt
- Address
- Forecourt to County Hall Including Bas Relief Drum, Lamp Posts, Boundary Marker, Pegs Lane, Hertford
- OS grid reference
- TL 324 119
- Coordinates
- 51.79041, -0.0813
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The forecourt to County Hall in Hertford, designed in 1938-1939 by architects James and Bywaters with Rowland Pierce, includes external sculpture, lamp posts, gate piers, and a boundary marker. A bas relief cast-iron drum featuring the figure of Diana the Huntress, along with harts and hounds, stands on York stone paving next to the Members' car park outside the main entrance portico of County Hall. This drum was originally meant to be placed on a small round point aligned with the main doorway.
The lamp posts are purpose-designed, featuring bronze lanterns with conical copper tops, globe lamps, and bronze brackets. Six of these lamp posts are mounted on tapered concrete octagonal columns with plinths, likely manufactured by Concrete Utilities Ltd., known for pioneering concrete lamp posts.
The gateways to the Members' and Visitors' car parks are flanked by dwarf octagonal piers made of Portland stone with moulded caps. A Portland stone bolection moulded boundary curb runs from the Leahoe car park access on the west, past the Members' and Visitors' car parks, and along the Peg's Lane boundary, marked by steles at intervals, leading to where the car park meets the curved road. These features are significant components of County Hall.
Local climate
Forecourt to County Hall Including Bas Relief Drum, Lamp Posts, Boundary Marker sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 13 applications
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