45, North Road

HERTFORD

TL3112NE NORTH ROAD 817-1/8/133 (North side) No.45

II

Medical supervisor's residence, now medical offices. c1850. Designed by Thomas Smith, architect. Grey-brown brick, laid to Flemish bond, with orange brick and stucco dressings, hipped Welsh slate roof with eaves supported on coupled bracket modillions. Grey brick chimneys with plinth band, oversailing courses and square cream terracotta pots. Central entry plan. EXTERIOR: 5 bays, 2 storeys, with centre breaking slightly forward. First floor with 5 recessed sash windows alternating divided and plain glazed, and set beneath alternating orange and cream rubbed brick flat arches, all with stucco sills. Centre bay has doorway raised on 3 stone steps, with recessed 6-panel door, the upper 4 panels glazed, with plain glazed fanlight above moulded transom. Stucco doorcase with Tuscan Doric pilasters, with torus moulded bases on plinth blocks, entablature with fascia frieze, moulded cornice and blocking course. Centre bay has cornice of stucco modillions, closely spaced, below plain unmoulded projecting band flush with eaves. Recessed, lower, 2-storey service wing at left (east). Rear elevation first floor with 4 windows, 12-pane sashes below slightly cambered rubbed brick flat arches. Ground floor has large projecting late C19 mullion and transom bay window with fascia frieze and lead covered blocking piece. INTERIOR: not inspected. This house was probably built as the medical supervisor's residence to the adjoining County Hospital (qv) by the same architect Thomas Smith, and it forms an important architectural element of this hospital group.

Listing NGR: TL3194412639