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The Old Pest House

A Grade II Listed Building in Hertford, Hertfordshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.8021 / 51°48'7"N

Longitude: -0.0857 / 0°5'8"W

OS Eastings: 532091

OS Northings: 213227

OS Grid: TL320132

Mapcode National: GBR KBJ.WPS

Mapcode Global: VHGPG.GYKW

Plus Code: 9C3XRW27+RP

Entry Name: The Old Pest House

Listing Date: 12 April 1973

Last Amended: 9 September 1996

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1268981

English Heritage Legacy ID: 461273

ID on this website: 101268981

Location: Bengeo, 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: Bengeo Holy Trinity and St Leonard with Christ Church

Church of England Diocese: St.Albans

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Description



HERTFORD

TL3213SW BYDE STREET, Bengeo
817-1/15/275 (West side)
12/04/73 The Old Pest House
(Formerly Listed as:
FARQUHAR STREET
The Pest House)

II

House, built as isolation hospital. Mid C18, altered and
embellished late C19. Red brick, Flemish bond, old tiled roof
with brick parapeted ends, and half Dutch gables at rear.
Elaborate brick chimneystacks left and right with moulded
bands and oversailing caps. Central raised tilehung
flat-roofed rear extension above lower slope of low swept-slip
roof.
EXTERIOR: first floor has outer 3-light, centre 2-light
small-panel iron casement windows with projecting frames and
moulded embattled heads raised on cut profiled corner
brackets. Plat band at first-floor level. Ground floor has 2
projecting moulded mullion and transom oriel bays with
small-paned iron casements, below old tile lean-to roofs, with
curved plastered spandrels below. Central 9-panel hardwood
door, upper 3-panels glazed with leaded light, with tiled
open-gabled and lean-to hood raised on braced brackets. Small
projecting windows on north gable, modern hip-roofed on south.
3 attic dormers at front with small-panel iron casements,
outer 2 with half-hipped, centre with hipped roof.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the Old Pest House was built in 1763 as an
isolation hospital against smallpox by Thomas Dimsdale
(1712-1800) who lived at Port Hill House (qv), and the plot
adjoined his garden. Dimsdale purchased an extensive estate in
the area. Port Hill House was known as 'The Inoculation
House'.
(Turnor L: History of Hertford: Hertford: 1830-: 166-9; Green
L: Hertford's Past in Pictures: Ware: 1993-: 39, 162; Page FM:
History of Hertford: Hertford: 1993-: 118-120; Hertfordshire
Countryside: Roberts E: Thomas Dimsdale and the Victory over
Smallpox: -1980: 20-1).


Listing NGR: TL3209113227

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