1, Queens Road

HERTFORD

TL3212SE QUEEN'S ROAD 817-1/20/173 (North side) No.1

GV II

Former police station, now offices. c1880, with C20 alterations. Yellow stock brick laid to Flemish bond, with orange brick dressings, and terracotta door hood. Welsh slated roof with lead roll hips, and yellow brick chimneys with red bands and oversailing courses. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Ground floor has orange brick plinth, and recessed central doorway,with splayed intrados and orange rubbed brick semicircular arch. Scrolled, pedimented door hood above, carried on moulded consoles. Half-glazed timber door with 2 lower panels with bolection moulded surrounds. Paired 12-pane sash windows, recessed, to left and right with concealed boxes, set within orange brick surrounds; similar treatment of squatter proportioned sash windows on first floor, but sandstone sills below, immediately above an orange brick plat band. Above, a slim roll, header course, moulded dentil course, and upper roll. Orange brick quoins at corners of building, and moulded brick cornice below eaves fascia. To right is hip-roofed single storey outbuilding, of yellow brick above orange brick plinths. To left, a rusticated Portland stone entrance gateway to yard, with single storey outbuildings, of yellow brick above orange brick plinth, with parapeted roof, further left and behind. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: built as the Hertford Police Station, this building reflects the Queen Anne revival style, particularly in the treatment of the central doorway. It also appears to have been intended to complement the early C18 facade of Bailey Hall (qv) on the adjoining site to the east.

Listing NGR: TL3264712452