23 And 25, Railway Street

HERTFORD

TL3212NE RAILWAY STREET 817-1/17/185 (North side) 08/12/72 Nos.23 AND 25

GV II

House, now with ground floor shop. C17, altered C19, with later C20 alterations. Timber-framed, stuccoed, underbuilt in colourwashed brick on ground floor, rear offshoot pebbledashed. Old tiled roofs. 2 bay structure, extended later to right (east) by a third bay. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. First floor has 3 flush-set C19 sash windows, with divided glazing, moulded architrave surrounds and outer stucco projecting ornamental heads above. Left-hand (west) flank elevation has flush-set sash window, subdivided into 6 tall panes, at left, and single small 6-pane sash with stucco outer surround at left of outshoot. Ground floor has full width mid C20 shopfront, with plate glass windows, splayed corner, below overhang with continuous fascia along main and left flank elevations, with blind boxes above. C20 flush door with glazed upper panel, with stucco surround above deep stucco plinth, at left of outshoot. Roof hipped gambrel over main block, above low parapet with moulded stucco band and cornice. 2 box casement dormers in front slope; low pitched over right extension, double-gabled over rear outshoot, 2 red brick chimneystacks at rear with orange clay pots. INTERIOR: comprehensively remodelled and opened out on ground floor from 1920s onwards; no features of special note now visible.

Listing NGR: TL3271812686