61 Fore Street

This is a mid-19th century shop with residential accommodation above. It stands on Fore Street in Hertford. The building is constructed of red brick laid in a Flemish bond pattern, with blue header bricks used as decoration on the first floor. A polychrome band of yellow and blue bricks runs along the second floor. The roof is tiled, with a moulded brick gabled half-dormer on the left and a projecting gable on the right. The left chimney has one pot, while the right chimney has four tall ornamental Tudor-style cream terracotta pots.

The building is two storeys and an attic, with one bay on the left and a gabled projection on the right. It is in a Free Jacobean style. The first floor has two recessed three-light sash windows with stone lintels and dripmoulds, and splay-chamfered stone sills. A similarly detailed single-light window is in the left flank of the projection. The second floor has a single and a double-light sash window, also similarly detailed. Ornamental terracotta circular reliefs depicting the heads of Queen Victoria and Elizabeth I are located to the left and right of the first-floor window on the left. A moulded, splayed brick band runs below the first-floor sills. The ground floor has a carriageway on the left, with boarded doors that have a moulded top rail; the right-hand door leaf has a wicket. There is a 20th-century shopfront with a 24-pane timber window and a recessed glazed door, with a projecting fascia lined up with the right-hand bay. The interior has not been inspected.