Description

HERTFORD

TL3212NE MAIDENHEAD STREET
817-1/17/109 (South side)
Nos.31 AND 33
Former Green Dragon Hotel including
wall and pier to right

GV II

Hotel, now shops with offices above. 1903 (date on corner
pediment), with later alterations. Architect James Farley,
contractor George Wiggs of Watford. Orange brick with orange
terracotta dressings and details, machine tiled roofs, with
brick slab stacks and multiple square terracotta pots. Free
Jacobean style.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attics. Multiple light moulded
terracotta mullion and transom windows on first and second
floors, and in attic dormers, with inserted metal casements
and plain glazing, with terracotta hoods, dripmoulds, quoins
and moulded panelled spandrels above continuous terracotta
facia and cornice above ground floor shops. Brick pilasters
break frontage and frame Dutch gabled dormers with cornelled
pinnacles. Pilasters to curved corner bay supported at
first-floor level on terracotta corbels with moulded Ionic
volutes and shields. Corner curved ornamental pediment all in
terracotta with moulded scrolls, festoons and swags, with
shield bearing date '1903' and peacock tail finial. Ground
floor facade to Maidenhead Street altered in 1952 and
converted to shops.
The right-hand bay and corner unit returning along The Wash
retain their glazed blue-green moulded faience plinth and
dado, with bowed coupled Ionic pilasters above, and low canted
faience stallrisers. A glazed tile panel in Art Nouveau style
flanks the shop entrance in the right-hand bay. Moulded
hardwood shop windows with plate glass, curved around corner
bay, with square pane upper lights.
Rear elevation of building plain orange brick with sash
windows, utilitarian in character.
INTERIOR: the major staircase running from ground to second
floor has square column balusters and a moulded handrail. All
public room interiors altered when building converted.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: to the right of the Maidenhead Street
frontage is an attached orange brick boundary wall with
moulded terracotta band and copings, terminating in a square
pier with a moulded terracotta cap.
HISTORICAL NOTE: this is the site of an early inn dating from
the 16th century, or before. In the early 19th century the

"Green Dragon Club", a Friendly Society met at the inn.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Hertfordshire:
Harmondsworth: 1977-: 189; Green L: Hertford's Past in
pictures: Ware: 1993-: 115).

Listing NGR: TL3257012596

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559144

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