Number 34 And Adjoining Entrance Screen On North is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1967. House, inn.
Number 34 And Adjoining Entrance Screen On North
- WRENN ID
- final-gravel-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1967
- Type
- House, inn
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 34 and the adjoining entrance screen on the north side is a house, originally built as a house or inn. It features an early 18th-century exterior that covers an older building, with an early 19th-century rear extension and entrance screen. The structure is made of red brick arranged in a chequered pattern with grey headers, while the northern end and rear are finished in painted stucco. The plum brick screen has stone coping and there is a wooden cornice beneath steep hipped slate roofs.
The building is two stories high with a cellar and has a six-window front facing east. The front is asymmetrical, featuring a stucco plinth, a brick plat-band, and a bracketed eaves cornice. The main entrance is accessed by three stone steps located below the third window from the northern end, and there is an additional wider entrance at the southern end, also up three stone steps. The windows are flush box sash style with six panes each, set under segmental gauged arches on both floors. The main door includes a semi-circular fanlight and fluted pilasters that support a full entablature topped with a triangular open pediment. The door itself is a half-glazed early 19th-century flush-beaded design with panelled reveals and features coloured glass leaded panels. The southern entrance has half-glazed early 19th-century double doors with flush-beaded panels, a moulded architrave, and a rectangular fanlight.
While the brick front appears to be constructed as a single unit, the second window from the southern end on the first floor is highlighted by a broad projecting brick surround and apron. The rear garden front is finished in stucco Gothick style, featuring cusped bargeboards and two-light casement windows with triangular pointed heads. There is a long rear wing at the southwest. The interior is reported to have wall paintings concealed by hessian wall covering in the northeast room on the ground floor. Additionally, a three-meter high segmental in-bowed brick screen wall adjoins the northern side, complete with boarded double gates and square brick piers topped with stone cappings.
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