Former Lodge To Christs Hospital School

HERTFORD

TL3212NE FORE STREET 817-1/17/94 (North side) No.131 Former Lodge to Christ's Hospital School

GV II

Numbered 123 on OS map. Lodge, now offices. Early C19 with C20 alterations. Red brick, laid to Flemish bond (south wall partly refaced), Welsh slated hipped roof with lead roll hips and ridge, above corbelled brick cornice; central red brick chimney with oversailing courses and 4 pots 3 pale yellow with rim tops. EXTERIOR: south elevation, first floor left-hand and ground floor right-hand, late C20 multi-pane wood sash windows under brick soldier arches. First floor centre, carved Portland stone cartouche with armorial bearings of City of London. East elevation has blocked ground floor gatekeeper's doorway beneath rubbed brick segmental arch and splayed corner with single sash window first floor and ground floor beneath rubbed segmental arches. Late C20 gabled porch with Welsh slated roof. INTERIOR: not inspected. Included for group value as part of the Christ's Hospital complex. (Hope Bagenal: The Georgian and Post Georgian Buildings of Hertford: 1929-: 10-11; Victoria History of the Counties of England: Hertfordshire: London: 1902-1912: 491; Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England): An Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire: London: 1910-: 113-4; Hertfordshire Countryside: Morrison J: Bluecoats in Hertfordshire: Letchworth: 1946-1954: 62-3; Hertfordshire Countryside: Moodey G: Georgian brickwork of the choicest sort: Letchworth: 1946-1973: 26-7; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Hertfordshire: Harmondsworth: 1977-: 188; Page FM: History of Hertford: Hertford: 1993-: 58,59,97,122,125-6).

Listing NGR: TL3296612718