82, Fore Street

HERTFORD

TL3212NE FORE STREET 817-1/17/78 (South side) No.82

GV II

Inn, and hotel, now shop with student residence above. Rebuilt 1890 on site of the historic 'Talbot Inn', Architect H Johnson. Yellow-grey brick with stone dressings and first-floor front windows, Welsh slated roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, first floor with broad segmental arch with moulded extrados and console keyblock framing recessed and projecting canted mullion and transom windows, side lights with architrave surrounds, panel above centre, leaded upper lights, cornice at second-floor sill level, balcony front below first-floor sills, with stone turned balusters and moulded top rail; second floor with 2 coupled arched sash windows separated by antae, with flanking pilasters with semicircular arches with dripmoulds, outer flanking pilasters, panelled fascia, with scrolled pediment parapet above. Ground floor has stone pilasters with carved brackets carrying first floor above. Recessed doors and windows, modified on left to lead into alleyway alongside building, moulded window surrounds and panelled stallrisers. INTERIOR: bar fittings removed from ground floor in conversion to shop, cased beams with panelled covers remain in ceilings. Upper floors converted to student residence 1992, late C19 staircase with Japanese style balusters, open string and turned newels with squat column and pawn finial. Access to upper floors now through Dimsdale House adjoining (qv). The site was part of the block rebuilt in 1890 by Poors Charity for the new Post Office, Nos 84 & 86 Fore Street adjoining to east (qv).

Listing NGR: TL3276712597