4, Old Cross

HERTFORD

TL3212NW OLD CROSS 817-1/16/137 (East side) No.4

GV II

House, now shop with residence over. C16, rebuilt C19 and mid 1920s. Timber-framed, brick and stucco exterior, Welsh slated roof with hipped end, above brick dentil eaves. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 1st and 2nd floors have recessed small paned sash windows with glazing bars, 2 (one blank) to Old Cross, 1 on diagonal, and 2 to Mill Bridge return elevation. Continuous ground floor 1920s shopfront with plate glass display windows, stuccoed stallriser, slim panelled pilasters with canted console blocks flanking fascia. Continuous blind boxes above glazed shop door in splayed recess at right of Old Cross elevation. INTERIOR: ground floor has elaborately roll moulded exposed beams, late C16, with cut ends and cast-iron column supports behind shopfront, and fireplace arch with heavy timber bressumer on party wall with No.6 (qv). No timber of this age and quality visible above on first or second floors. The property was rebuilt mid/late C19 and again radically reconstructed when the improved Mill Bridge was realigned in 1926-7.

Listing NGR: TL3248012674