28 And 30, Railway Street

HERTFORD

TL3212NE RAILWAY STREET 817-1/17/187 (South side) 12/04/73 Nos.28 AND 30

GV II

Houses, now with large shop on ground floor of No.30. C17, with C18 and C19 alterations. Timber-framed, stuccoed front, pebbledashed rear, with brown brick lean-to outshoot behind No.28. A brown brick right-hand (west) wall, and parapet, is a vestige of properties to the west demolished in 1960s. Old tiled roofs. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics; first floor has 4 flush-set 12-pane sash windows, with architrave surrounds; ground floor has carriageway on left, large C20 shopfront with plate glass windows across centre, and single flush-set 12-pane sash window at right, with panelled door under weatherboard hood on cut console brackets. Rear has flush-set 12-pane sash window above carriageway, scattered fenestration, much renewed, elsewhere. Roofs with 4 box dormers (3 casements and single C20 pivot widow); projecting gable over main rear outshoot. Welsh slated roof to lean-to behind No.28. Yellow brick chimneystack forward of ridge on left, and tall red-brown brick chimneystack with band and 4 tall orange clay pots which rises from rear slope of No.28. Tall brown brick stack further back. INTERIOR: ground floors opened out. Interiors of upper floors not inspected.

Listing NGR: TL3275412690