Description

HERTFORD

TL3312NW RAILWAY PLACE
817-1/18/182 (West side)
No.29
The Great Eastern Tavern

II

Hotel, now public house. 1843, with late C19 and mid C20
alterations. Yellow Stock brick, laid to Flemish bond, with
stucco plat band and cornice, Welsh slated hipped roof with
red clay 'V' chimneys with orange terracotta pots. L-plan with
infill between arms having curved front.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 2 wood sash windows with glazing bars
recessed in brick reveals under rubbed brick arches, first
floor end elevations, 1 central window in re-entrant. Ground
floor has projecting flat-roofed yellow brick bay window,
c1950s, at left, and late C19 shopfront entrance to former
off-sales at right, 3 light moulded wood mullion and transom
windows, with leaded upper vents, above patterned stucco
stallriser with circular motifs. Half-glazed entrance door at
left, rusticated stucco pilasters left and right, with fascia
immediately below first-floor window sills.
Centre has ground floor loggia with antae and pilaster
responds, curved wood fascia, moulded cornice and cast-iron
railings to perimeter of flat canopy roof. Entrance recessed,
altered mid C20, 2 half glazed doors in centre with sash
windows left and right.
INTERIOR: refurbished 1940s, with central bar dispense serving
2 major bar rooms. Upper floors not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: built as an hotel by the Eastern Counties
Railway, and served the Hertford Station in its original
location, until the construction of the replacement Hertford
East Station in the 1880s. The building is a near twin of the
contemporary Station Hotel in Station Place, Ware.

Listing NGR: TL3326612959

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559070

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