The Sportsman Public House

HERTFORD

TL3212NE FORE STREET 817-1/17/89 (North side) 10/02/50 No.117 The Sportsman Public House (Formerly Listed as: FORE STREET (North side) No.117 The Blue Boy)

GV II

House, now public house. Mid/late C18 with C20 alterations and extensions. Timber-framed, stucco with red brick angle pilasters laid to Flemish bond, old tiled roof with lead roll hips and moulded eaves cornice, and Welsh slated roof over front pediment. Red brick chimneys with oversailing courses, earthenware and terracotta pots. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic in centre. Centre staircase plan, much altered internally. Front elevation has first floor with 3 narrow 8-pane sashes, nearly flush set with moulded architrave surrounds, the central windows masked by inn sign. Ground floor with 2 similar wider 12-pane windows. Central doorway with 6 fielded panelled door, upper 2 panels glazed, recessed in wood doorcase with panelled Tuscan pilasters, entablature and pediment. Large pediment to attic, with moulded surround, and central attic casement window with small panes. Long rear outshoot along South Street, single storey and attics with 5 small sash windows and 2 hipped dormers with sashes. Building altered externally and internally and extended in 1981. INTERIOR: bar spaces reconstructed and have late C20 fittings. Interior above ground floor not inspected. (Smith JT: English Houses 1200-1800: The Hertfordshire Evidence: London: 1992-: 185).

Listing NGR: TL3287812691