72 And 74, Fore Street

HERTFORD

TL3212NE FORE STREET 817-1/17/75 (South side) 12/04/73 Nos.72 AND 74

GV II

Bank, now offices. Late C19 (pre 1890), with C20 alterations. Ashlar yellow sandstone front, grey-brown brick, laid to Flemish bond at rear. Welsh slated roofs above wide moulded modillioned cornice at front, hipped end to rear outshut, and tall grey-brown brick chimneystacks. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with 2-storey rear outshut. 4-bay front elevation, Italianate style. First floor has 4 plate-glazed sash windows in projecting architrave surrounds, the outer windows with moulded consoles and cornice hoods, panelled aprons and pilasters below. The inner windows have carved consoles with garlands. There are carved foliated panels above, below cornice with eaved segmental pediment above. Panelled aprons flanked by pilasters below. Modillioned cornice at first-floor level above fascia. Second floor has 4 plate-glazed sash windows with segmental heads, and moulded architrave surrounds with projecting keyblocks, with projecting band above, projecting sills below, carried on consoles, with cast-iron fretted frontals. Ground floor rusticated, with 3 plate-glazed sashes recessed below segmental arches, projecting apron panels beneath. Doorway at right with hardwood panelled 2 leaf doors below rectangular fanlight, rusticated voussoirs with vermiculated keyblock, and vermiculated plinth course. Long narrow outshut with C20 steel French windows and casements on first floor, below brick soldier arch. Ground floor with C19 triple sash, plate-glazed, beneath slightly cambered rubbed brick arch. INTERIOR: ground floor former banking hall stripped of original fittings and subdivided.

Listing NGR: TL3273412583