88, 89 AND 90, AKEMAN STREET

Three adjoining houses, likely dating from the 17th century or earlier, are situated on Akeman Street, Tring. The rear wall of number 90 reveals a timber frame with red brick infill. The brick facades of each house differ and were constructed in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The roof is steeply pitched, covered with old red tiles, which extend over the rear outshuts of numbers 88 and 89.

The houses are two storeys and cellar, facing east onto the street at a bend in the road, with an attic added to number 90. Number 88 features a red brick front, chequered with blue headers, and a stucco plinth. It has plain eaves corbel courses, with renewed three-light casement windows on each floor, having a segmental arch to the ground floor and a relieving arch over a recessed left-hand doorway. The doorway has a six-panel door, reached by two stone steps. There are three tie-rod plates at floor level. Number 89 has pilasters at each end, dentilled eaves, an 18th-century leaded mullioned three-light window on the first floor, a small bracketed oriel window, and a similar 18th-century two-light casement, linked by a flat hood over a four-panel half-glazed door. A cellar opening is on the left. Number 90 has a plum brick front with two windows to each floor, chamfered pilasters, a dentilled eaves course, and cambered red brick gauged arches to the ground floor openings. The front is symmetrical, with flush box sashes of four-over-four panes on the first floor and twelve-over-twelve panes on the ground floor, and a four-panel flush beaded door with two stone steps. A three-light, leaded mullioned dormer window is centered on the roof slope. There are large end chimneys at the left and a smaller one at the right. Number 89 has an older large internal chimney at the north end. A timber frame is visible in the north end and rear wall of number 90, including a chamfered axial beam with run-out stops.