35 And 37 Including Former Number 33

HERTFORD

TL3212NE CHURCH STREET 817-1/17/45 (East side) 12/04/73 Nos.35 AND 37 including former No.33 (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET Nos.31-37 (Odd))

GV II

Houses (No.35 now incorporates No.33, end unit of terrace from No.19 (qv), and No.37 has former Green Coat school as east wing (qv). C16, altered C19 and subdivided, timber-framed and plastered, former No.33 underbuilt in brown brick, Flemish bond, No.37 has weatherboarded stair turret. Old tiled roofs gabled to west on No.35, higher gabled cross wing to No.37, red brick chimney on ridge above former No.33, external chimney breast and red brick 'T' plan chimneystack with 3 long orange clay pots on right (east) end of No.37; No.35 has single storey slate roofed lean-to on south. EXTERIOR: No.35 has 1 flush 12-pane sash window at left on first floor (former No.33) and one C19 2-light wood casement with margin glazing; ground floor with 1 sash window and half-glazed door recessed in architrave frame to left (former No.33), with projecting C19 bay with sash window with divided glazing, and sash sidelights, with lead flat roof, in centre; margin glazed casement far right in lean-to; flank south elevation has 2-light wood casements, first and ground floors, with C19 4-panel door, upper 2 glazed at right. No.37 has 1 small 2-light casement on first floor of weatherboarded stair turret beneath catslide roof of loft, and 1 tall 2-light casement, divided horizontally with 4 panes centre right, below gable, with shallow jetty above. Bressumer band above ground-floor windows marks line of former jetty, underbuilt C19, now with 2 flush-set sashes, top sashes with 8 panes, lower sashes with divided glazing. Deep plinth, black tarred, partly weatherboarded, partly coloured over brick, around building. Rear gabled elevation has central tall casement window as on front, ground floor 3 and 2-light casements. INTERIOR: No.35 has exposed jowled posts and tie beam in first floor bedroom in gabled end, Tudor arched brick fireplace in room below with flask shaped stack above. No.37 has ground floor main room with exposed chamfered beams with tongue stops, fireplace with brick cheeks, one rebuilt, and timber bressumer with roll mouldings; first floor,

approached by tight winding staircase in turret, originally one chamber, studwork exposed in west wall, modern ceiling at wall plate level, originally ceiled at collar level, roof has heavy section halved and pegged rafters with no ridge, no purlins visible, no smoke blackening. HISTORICAL NOTE: No.35 & 37 were a single house. In 1812 the east wing was built as the Green Coat School, and the house became the Schoolmaster's House. The school moved to larger premises on the London Road in 1868. (Page FM: History of Hertford: Hertford: 1993-: 178-9).

Listing NGR: TL3273612505