The Black Horse Public House

HERTFORD

TL3212SW WEST STREET 817-1/19/254 (South side) 12/04/73 Nos.29 AND 31 The Black Horse Public House (Formerly Listed as: WEST STREET No.29)

GV II

Two houses, now in united use and ownership as public house, with tenant's flat over, and interconnecting internally. Late C17 with C18 and C19 alterations. Timber-framed, stuccoed and plastered. No.29 has masonry lined stucco front, No.31 has stucco ground floor and pebbledashed colourwashed first floor. Old tiled roofs. EXTERIOR: 1 storey and attics (No.29); 2 storeys and attics (No.31), which has a mezzanine floor at rear below long downward slope of slip roof. 2 bay (No.29) and 3 bay (No.31) structures. Ground floor of No.29 has 2 flush-set 12-pane sash windows with weatherboard heads; right of centre is recessed 6-panel door, upper 2 glazed, with flush frame and cornice hood on cut profiled brackets. No.31 first floor has 2 flush-set 2-light 24 pane wood Yorkshire sashes with weatherboard heads. Ground floor with two C19 4-light projecting oriel bays carried on cut brackets, with moulded mullions, lattice pattern leaded glazing, and old tiled lean-to single storey, central half glazed door. Rear single storey colourwashed brick lean-to Welsh slated outshut to No.29; No.31 has yellow brick Welsh slated wash-house outshut. No.29 with 2 gabled dormers with 3-light wood casements with divided glazing. No.31 has 2 gabled dormers with 2-light small pane casements; tall red brick stack with 3 orange clay pots, lengthened when No.31 constructed, on rear slope of roof of No.29. No.31 has square rear stack, and at right (west) substantial red brick chimney of four shafts clustered around square central stack, with 4 orange clay pots. INTERIOR: opened out into single bar area with openings into No.29, heavy section central binder, and principal posts exposed, C20 fireplaces, 1960s bar counter. Upper floors not inspected. No.31 is included in the list for the first time.

Listing NGR: TL3232812295