Description

HERTFORD

TL3212NW PORT HILL
817-1/16/168 (West side)
10/02/50 Nos.1-7 (Odd)

GV II

Terrace of 4 houses, treated as a symmetrical architectural
composition. Early C19. Yellow stock brick front, laid to
Flemish Bond, with stucco dressings; yellow-grey gault brick
side and rear. Welsh slated roofs, mainly hipped, behind low
parapets. Original moulded stucco cornice and brick blocking
course remains on No.1. Yellow brick chimneystacks with
oversailing courses and orange and yellow earthenware pots.
Terrace takes a shallow convex plan set back from the road
frontage behind shallow front gardens.
EXTERIOR: 3-storey wings (Nos 1 & 7) with 2-storey centre (Nos
3 and 5), with shallow central break in wings, and in the
centre. 3 (1:1:1): 6(2:2:2): 3 (1:1:1) sash windows on first
floor, 12-pane, recessed, with concealed boxes, beneath rubbed
flat arches. 2nd floors (Nos 1 & 7) 3 nine-pane sash windows.
Central projecting pediment shared by Nos 3 & 5. Stucco plat
band at first-floor level. Ground floor has doors to No.1 at
extreme left, recessed 4-panel door, with upper 2 glazed, with
stucco architrave surround, panelled frieze and cornice; door
to No.7 now rebuilt as window with side entry. Projecting
centre with rusticated stucco and twin arches with recessed
porches to Nos 3 & 5, 4-panel doors as No.1, and plain glazed
semicircular fanlights. Ground-floor sash windows plate glazed
with central mullion in each sash; similar window on first
floor of No.7.
Sides and rear have sash windows to each floor, some beneath
segmental arches. No.1 has 2-storey outshoot, raised from
original single storey form.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Nos 3 & 5 were listed on 12/04/73.
(Hope Bagenal: The Georgian and Post Georgian Buildings of
Hertford: 1929-: 19).

Listing NGR: TL3227312878

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559089

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)