Old Cross House

HERTFORD

TL3212NW OLD CROSS 817-1/16/150 (North side) 12/04/73 Old Cross House

GV II

House, now offices. C18 with C19 extensions and early C20 alterations. Red brick, laid to Flemish bond, with plat band at first-floor level. Old tiled roof above moulded wood eaves cornice, with brick coped gables with corbelled kneelers. Brick chimneystacks, with oversailing courses and earthenware pots, at left and right. Central staircase plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. First floor has 5 sash windows, upper sashes 6 pane, lower sashes plain glazed, recessed below rubbed flat arches all but concealed by the eaves cornice. Ground floor rebuilt in 1920s with 3 light projecting casement bay windows, with lean-to old tiled roofs, at left and right, and central multi-light half-glazed door. Sidelights and fanlights beneath projecting wood-framed open-gabled porch. Right-hand gable cement rendered. Roof with 3 casement dormers with rendered cheeks and hipped old tile roofs. Twin rear outshoots in yellow brick with red dressings, with divided plate glazed sash windows, red brick corbelled eaves and machine tiled gabled roofs with brick stacks. INTERIOR: much altered, cellar brick lined with brick floor.

Listing NGR: TL3249512729