Description

TL3212NE
817-1/17/72

HERTFORD
FORE STREET (north side)
No. 61

GV
II
Shop with flat over. Mid C19, with C20 alterations. Red brick,laid to Flemish bond, with blue header diaperwork on first floor, polychrome yellow and blue band at second-floor level, with stone dressings around windows. Old tiled roof above moulded brick gabled half dormer at left, and similarly detailed projecting gable at right. Brick chimney at left, chimney at right has four tall ornamental Tudor style cream terracotta pots

EXTERIOR: two storeys and attic, one bay at left, with gabled projection at right. Free Jacobean style. First floor has two recessed three-light sash windows with stone lintels and dripmoulds above, and stone splay-chamfered sills. Similarly detailed single-light window in left flank of projecting bay; second floor has a single and a double-light sash similarly detailed. Ornamental terracotta circular reliefs with heads of Queen Victoria and Elizabeth I left and right of left-hand window, and moulded splayed brick band below first floor sills. Ground floor has carriageway at left, with boarded doors with moulded top rail, and wicket in right-hand leaf; C20 shopfront with 24-pane timber window and recessed glazed door, and fascia projecting to line of right-hand bay above.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TL3279012631

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559208

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6