Vale House

HERTFORD

TL3212NW COWBRIDGE 817-1/16/53 (South side) 12/04/73 No.43 Vale House

II

House, now offices. C17, with C18 frontage block, altered C19 and C20. Colourwashed brick, stucco over timber framing, brown stock brick, Welsh slated roof above eaves with paired brackets to front; old tiled roofs at rear. Red and brown brick chimneystacks. EXTERIOR: front has 5 tall 12 pane recessed sash windows with concealed sash boxes, below rubbed flat arches with scalloped soffit. Stucco sills, with panelled aprons below all except the central window. 5 similar windows on ground floor, right-hand window now infilled. Plat band at first-floor level. Irregular fenestration on north side elevation. Entrance in tile roofed outshut, with large triple sash window on first floor above doorway with panelled door. Doorcase has panelled Doric pilasters and flat projecting hood with fascia frieze and moulded cornice, supported on slender cast-iron colonnettes replacing columns. To right of entrance is lower C17 timber-framed and plastered block, much altered, with projecting C19 west wing, with higher roof line. C17 wing has plastered gable and 3 narrow sash windows on first floor and large projecting brick canted bay window on ground floor. INTERIOR: much altered with some C18 cornices in ground floor room, C19 fireplaces, early C19 open string stair with bracketed treads, moulded hardwood handrail with wreath, and stick balusters. Roof over long C17 outshoot has pegged halved rafters with collars, and butt purlins.

Listing NGR: TL3227012836