Description

HERTFORD

TL3212NE RAILWAY STREET
817-1/17/185 (North side)
08/12/72 Nos.23 AND 25

GV II

House, now with ground floor shop. C17, altered C19, with
later C20 alterations. Timber-framed, stuccoed, underbuilt in
colourwashed brick on ground floor, rear offshoot
pebbledashed. Old tiled roofs. 2 bay structure, extended later
to right (east) by a third bay.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. First floor has 3 flush-set
C19 sash windows, with divided glazing, moulded architrave
surrounds and outer stucco projecting ornamental heads above.
Left-hand (west) flank elevation has flush-set sash window,
subdivided into 6 tall panes, at left, and single small 6-pane
sash with stucco outer surround at left of outshoot. Ground
floor has full width mid C20 shopfront, with plate glass
windows, splayed corner, below overhang with continuous fascia
along main and left flank elevations, with blind boxes above.
C20 flush door with glazed upper panel, with stucco surround
above deep stucco plinth, at left of outshoot.
Roof hipped gambrel over main block, above low parapet with
moulded stucco band and cornice. 2 box casement dormers in
front slope; low pitched over right extension, double-gabled
over rear outshoot, 2 red brick chimneystacks at rear with
orange clay pots.
INTERIOR: comprehensively remodelled and opened out on ground
floor from 1920s onwards; no features of special note now
visible.

Listing NGR: TL3271812686

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559042

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