36 And 38, Castle Street

HERTFORD

TL3212SW CASTLE STREET 817-1/19/31 (North side) 12/04/73 Nos.36 AND 38

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Semi-detached houses, now offices. Early C19, with C20 alterations. Yellow stock brick, Flemish bond (right-hand (east) flank and rear elevation of No.36 now colourwashed). Hipped Welsh slated roof with catslide at rear, 2 central square yellow brick chimneys with oversailing courses and 4 orange clay pots each. 2 subsidiary stacks left and right with 2 pots. Central entrance and staircase plans. EXTERIOR: 6 bays, 2 storeys. First floor has 4 recessed 9-pane sash windows beneath rubbed brick flat arches and with stucco sills, 2 to each dwelling, either side of central slightly projecting bay with blind window recess. Projecting pilaster to centre reflects party wall dividing 2 dwellings within. Ground floor has four 12-pane sash windows, and doorways in projecting bays, recessed 3 panel doors in reveal with twin panelled pilasters and semicircular fanlight (with radial and sectoral patterned tracery to No.38), below rubbed brick semicircular arches. Rear of No.36 has large C20 conservatory; rear of No.38 has single storey lean-to outshoot with Welsh slated roof with square brick chimney with oversailing courses serving former washhouse. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TL3248312377