1-7, PORT HILL

HERTFORD

TL3212NW PORT HILL 817-1/16/168 (West side) 10/02/50 Nos.1-7 (Odd)

GV II

Terrace of 4 houses, treated as a symmetrical architectural composition. Early C19. Yellow stock brick front, laid to Flemish Bond, with stucco dressings; yellow-grey gault brick side and rear. Welsh slated roofs, mainly hipped, behind low parapets. Original moulded stucco cornice and brick blocking course remains on No.1. Yellow brick chimneystacks with oversailing courses and orange and yellow earthenware pots. Terrace takes a shallow convex plan set back from the road frontage behind shallow front gardens. EXTERIOR: 3-storey wings (Nos 1 & 7) with 2-storey centre (Nos 3 and 5), with shallow central break in wings, and in the centre. 3 (1:1:1): 6(2:2:2): 3 (1:1:1) sash windows on first floor, 12-pane, recessed, with concealed boxes, beneath rubbed flat arches. 2nd floors (Nos 1 & 7) 3 nine-pane sash windows. Central projecting pediment shared by Nos 3 & 5. Stucco plat band at first-floor level. Ground floor has doors to No.1 at extreme left, recessed 4-panel door, with upper 2 glazed, with stucco architrave surround, panelled frieze and cornice; door to No.7 now rebuilt as window with side entry. Projecting centre with rusticated stucco and twin arches with recessed porches to Nos 3 & 5, 4-panel doors as No.1, and plain glazed semicircular fanlights. Ground-floor sash windows plate glazed with central mullion in each sash; similar window on first floor of No.7. Sides and rear have sash windows to each floor, some beneath segmental arches. No.1 has 2-storey outshoot, raised from original single storey form. INTERIOR: not inspected. Nos 3 & 5 were listed on 12/04/73. (Hope Bagenal: The Georgian and Post Georgian Buildings of Hertford: 1929-: 19).

Listing NGR: TL3227312878