Number 17 Including Front Railings is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 April 1973. House, offices. 6 related planning applications.
Number 17 Including Front Railings
- WRENN ID
- silent-vault-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 April 1973
- Type
- House, offices
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 17 is a house, now used as offices and a flat, dating to the late 17th century. It has undergone alterations and extensions in the early 19th century and the 20th century. The exterior is a mix of stucco, brown brick in Flemish bond, and colourwashed brick, with an old tiled roof and parapeted ends. The roof is also covered in Welsh slate, with a hipped section over a large rear outshut. Stuccoed and yellow brick chimneystacks are also present.
The front of the building has three wood casement windows on both the ground and first floors. These windows have Gothick lancet traceried heads with a 3:2:3 light arrangement. A plat band runs along the first floor, and the basement windows are enclosed by cast-iron railings featuring fleur-de-lys heads and lotus bud shafts.
The south-facing flank elevation to Queens Road shows a brick outer gable wall with crow stepping and slate copings. There is also a projecting, single-storey castellated porch, stuccoed with a dripmould raised over a Tudor arched doorway, featuring recessed, twin-leaf, moulded panelled and nailed doors. Three gabled casement dormers are visible.
The rear of the building features a two-storey canted bay window on the first floor, with flush-set 12-pane sashes. The ground floor has French windows with Gothick tracery and margin glazing.
The ground floor interior was extensively altered during its conversion to a surgery in the 1950s. The west front room retains 18th-century panelling with a double cyma wood cornice and a 19th-century fireplace with fluted pilaster strips and paterae. The east middle room, now subdivided, retains a plaster coved cornice with a reeded band. The former rear dining room has a higher ceiling and an elaborate cornice with lotus buds and flattened mouldings. The basement has a brick floor and walls, including reset medieval timber beams. A staircase from the Queen Street entrance, dating to the early 20th century, features elongated swelling column balusters and a hardwood rail. The attics are divided into three sections, with 17th/18th-century panelled and plank doors with 'H' hinges, ceiled at collar level.
Subsidiary features include cast-iron area railings with an arrowhead design to the front.
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