Description

In the entry for

TL 1407 SW
8/39
8.5.50

FISHPOOL STREET
(north side)
No 52

II
GV

With No 54. Late C18 fronts to a C17 range of buildings: 2 storeys, 3
windows. Red brick; steep, swept, tiled roof with wood box eaves. 1st
floor windows casements with glazing bars in flush, box frames under shallow
segmental, gauged, brick arches. Flat, gauged, brick arches to ground
floor sash windows with glazing bars in flush, moulded frames. Doorcase
has open, pediment-shaped head, with dentil cornice and cut soffit, resting
on similar cornice ends over carved, scrolled consoles on panelled pilasters.
Within the pediment a blank panel framed between tiny pilasters with Adam
decoration at either side. Deep panelled reveals to door, under cut and
reeded architrave. Weatherboarded rear extension with hipped, tiled gable.
1914-18 was memorial tablet set in wall, one of a series of wall plaques
in St Albans which commemorate the fallen of individual streets and localities.
Nos 24 to 46 (even) and Nos 50 to 54 (even) form a group.

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1.
1582
TL 1407 SW
8/39

FISHPOOL STREET
(North Side)
No 54

II
GV

2.
With No 52.
Early C19 front to C17 range of buildings. Two storeys and sunk basement,
two windows first floor, two windows between doors on ground floor. Red
brick with diaper of blue headers, high pitched tiled roof and moulded wood
eaves cornice. First floor, two-light casement windows, with glazing bars,
directly under cornice. Gauged, segmental, brick arches to ground floor doors
and windows, all recessed. Glazing bars to windows. Right door is glazed, left
door is early C19, with two fielded and three flat panels.

Nos 24 to 46 (even) and Nos 50 to 54 (even) form a group.

Listing NGR: TL1418907176

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26630600

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