Description

HERTFORD

TL3212SE QUEEN'S ROAD
817-1/20/173 (North side)
No.1

GV II

Former police station, now offices. c1880, with C20
alterations. Yellow stock brick laid to Flemish bond, with
orange brick dressings, and terracotta door hood. Welsh slated
roof with lead roll hips, and yellow brick chimneys with red
bands and oversailing courses.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Ground floor has orange brick plinth, and
recessed central doorway,with splayed intrados and orange
rubbed brick semicircular arch. Scrolled, pedimented door hood
above, carried on moulded consoles. Half-glazed timber door
with 2 lower panels with bolection moulded surrounds. Paired
12-pane sash windows, recessed, to left and right with
concealed boxes, set within orange brick surrounds; similar
treatment of squatter proportioned sash windows on first
floor, but sandstone sills below, immediately above an orange
brick plat band. Above, a slim roll, header course, moulded
dentil course, and upper roll. Orange brick quoins at corners
of building, and moulded brick cornice below eaves fascia.
To right is hip-roofed single storey outbuilding, of yellow
brick above orange brick plinths. To left, a rusticated
Portland stone entrance gateway to yard, with single storey
outbuildings, of yellow brick above orange brick plinth, with
parapeted roof, further left and behind.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: built as the Hertford Police Station, this
building reflects the Queen Anne revival style, particularly
in the treatment of the central doorway. It also appears to
have been intended to complement the early C18 facade of
Bailey Hall (qv) on the adjoining site to the east.

Listing NGR: TL3264712452

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559068

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)