Description

HERTFORD

TL3212NE FORE STREET
817-1/17/76 (South side)
10/02/50 Nos.76 AND 78
Barclays Bank

GV II

Shop with living accommodation over, now bank and offices.
Early C19, ground floor rebuilt 1885, with mid C20 internal
alterations and rear extension. Painted stone and stucco
facade, yellow stock brick and stucco rear outshoots, Welsh
slated roofs, concealed by parapet above cornice, stepped up
in centre.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. 5-bay front 1:3:1. First floor has triple
sashes, 4:12:4 panes, separated by slender antae, with large
pediments above carried on moulded consoles. Central 3 bays
break forward, with three 12-pane sash windows in moulded
architrave surrounds, the centre window also having a plain
outer surround with a flat moulded cornice hood carried on
moulded consoles.
Second floor has 5 sash windows, all 12 pane, with the central
window having a moulded architrave surround, and a projecting
sill carried on plain corbels at either side. Ground floor has
plinth, moulded string course, with raised panelled Tuscan
Doric pilasters defining central 3 bays, coupled at left and
right and single flanking central bay, above responds. Triple
window at left, fixed small-paned sashes, with projecting
transom, separated by panelled Tuscan antae, with moulded
projecting surround-cill raised during 1980s to accommodate
cash dispensing machines in stucco panel below. 3 central
windows of mullion and transom pattern with moulded architrave
surround.
To right is former carriageway with channelled rusticated
jambs and elliptical arch, now infilled with modern
multi-panel hardwood double-leaf doors below fixed panel head.
Ground floor surmounted by entablature with plain frieze and
moulded cornice, with modillions to central 3 bays.
Rear elevations plain, with 12-pane sash windows first and
second floors, with pink sandstone bands and stepped lintels
on first floor, and yellow stock brick, Flemish Bond walls.
Lower 2-storey stuccoed outshoot with recessed sash window in
first floor and flush set sashes on ground floor.
INTERIOR: largely gutted and opened out on ground floor, with
main entrance taken through former carriageway, replacing
previous entrance in right-hand bay of centre.
HISTORICAL NOTE: this building was constructed by a local

store owner, Rayment, in early C19. The ground floor
originally had twin Ionic columns in antis, with a central
entrance and large-paned shop windows left and right. The
ground floor was altered by Barclays in 1885 when they
acquired the site.
(Hope Bagenal: The Georgian and Post Georgian Buildings of
Hertford: 1929-: 19-20; Green L: Hertford's Past in pictures:
Ware: 1993-: 162).

Listing NGR: TL3274412587

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559176

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