Description

HERTFORD

TL3212NE FORE STREET
817-1/17/60 (South side)
12/04/73 Nos.2-10 (Even)
(Formerly Listed as:
FORE STREET
Nos.2 AND 4)
(Formerly Listed as:
FORE STREET
Nos.6-10 (Even))

GV II

Houses and shops. Early C19, with Late C19 alterations. Stucco
over brickwork, brown stock brickwork, laid to English bond,
at rear, and long plastered and weatherboarded outshoot behind
Nos 6-10. Welsh slated roofs above deep moulded cornice, and
brown brick chimneys.
EXTERIOR: 6-bay facade, cranked in centre to follow street
frontage. First floor has 6 recessed 12-pane sash windows,
spaced 3:1:2, and stucco plat bands at first and second-floor
levels. Ground floor has elaborate mid C19 shop window at
left, with central recessed entrance with twin three-quarter
glazed 6-panel doors, with fanlight above, and glazed side
lights. Entrance and shop windows flanked by slim pilasters.
Multi-pane wooden windows with panelled stallrisers, and
traceried cast-iron ventilation strip at top, and running
across head of sidelights and doorway; broad fascia with
moulded cornice. Central recessed 6-panel door flanked by
quarter Doric fluted columns; semicircular fanlight with
radiating glazing bars above.
To right is late C19 shopfront, with recessed glazed door,
canted display windows, with plate glass in wood frames, and
panelled stallrisers, flanked by slim pilasters surmounted by
paired cut consoles. Fascia with cornice and blind box.
At rear, No.4 has sash windows with gothick tracery, on ground
and first floors, and a long landing window. Irregular
fenestration to 2 and 3-storey outshoots includes a Yorkshire
sash window second floor.
INTERIOR: ground floor at left opened out to form restaurant.
(Green L: Hertford's Past in pictures: Ware: 1993-: 114).

Listing NGR: TL3263212546

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559200

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