23 And 23A, Old Cross

HERTFORD

TL3212NW OLD CROSS 817-1/16/145 (West side) 12/04/73 Nos.23 AND 23A (Formerly Listed as: OLD CROSS (West side) No.23)

GV II

House, incorporating shop. Early-mid C18, with early C20 alterations. Timber-framed, with brick front, now rendered in lined-out stucco. Old tiled roof set above bold modillioned wood eaves cornice and boxed eaves. Red brick stacks with oversailing courses, that to right heightened. Central staircase plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. First floor has three 12-pane sash windows with exposed boxes, slightly recessed. Ground floor has single sash window to left, central doorway, with 6-fielded panelled door, glazed 3-light overdoor, and C20 pedimented hood on cut brackets. Early C20 shopfront at right with brown glazed brick stallriser, windows with canted recess with three-quarter glazed door, fascia on moulded consoles and bold moulded cornice/blind box. Roof has 2 gabled tiled dormers with wooden sashes. C19 outshoot at rear. INTERIOR: retains original staircase, and exposed framing. (Smith JT: Hertfordshire Houses: Selective Inventory: London: 1993-: 86).

Listing NGR: TL3244012729