27, West Street

HERTFORD

TL3212SW WEST STREET 817-1/19/253 (South side) 12/04/73 No.27

GV II

House. C17 altered and extended c1800. Timber-framed, plastered front right (west) flank wall end rear lean-to in brown brick, Flemish bond, with some rendered and colourwashed brick. Welsh slated roof with broad-eaves brown brick chimneystacks left and right, with some clay ports. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, originally a 2-storey house, with a central entry from street and 2 rooms; c1800 hall incorporated into left-hand (east) sitting room, and rear lean-to with new entrance hall added to give a double-depth plan. First floor front has 3 flush-set 12-pane sash windows with architrave surrounds, second floor 2 squat 6-pane sashes, left and right ground floor with 3 flush-set 12-pane sashes with shallow moulded cornices below continuous band at first-floor level. INTERIOR: sitting room has mid C19 white marble fireplace with cast-iron hob grate, some crown glass to sash windows of front, 4 panelled oak doors to dining and sitting rooms. Rear staircase with stick balusters and moulded handrail around landing. First floor has chamfered and tongue longitudinal beams in front bedrooms. Central staircase to second floor has column on vase balusters, square newels and moulded handrails. Exposed horizontal plate around perimeter wall 600mm above-floor level. Cellar beneath front range brick walled and brick floored with basement windows to front; recessed arched shelving below chimneystack on east wall. Home of William Archer (1754-1833), merchant, miller and entrepreneur, manufacturer of linseed oil. (Forrester H: Timber-framed buildings in Hertford and Ware: Hitchin: 1964-: 24).

Listing NGR: TL3234512305