The Great Eastern Tavern

HERTFORD

TL3312NW RAILWAY PLACE 817-1/18/182 (West side) No.29 The Great Eastern Tavern

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Hotel, now public house. 1843, with late C19 and mid C20 alterations. Yellow Stock brick, laid to Flemish bond, with stucco plat band and cornice, Welsh slated hipped roof with red clay 'V' chimneys with orange terracotta pots. L-plan with infill between arms having curved front. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 2 wood sash windows with glazing bars recessed in brick reveals under rubbed brick arches, first floor end elevations, 1 central window in re-entrant. Ground floor has projecting flat-roofed yellow brick bay window, c1950s, at left, and late C19 shopfront entrance to former off-sales at right, 3 light moulded wood mullion and transom windows, with leaded upper vents, above patterned stucco stallriser with circular motifs. Half-glazed entrance door at left, rusticated stucco pilasters left and right, with fascia immediately below first-floor window sills. Centre has ground floor loggia with antae and pilaster responds, curved wood fascia, moulded cornice and cast-iron railings to perimeter of flat canopy roof. Entrance recessed, altered mid C20, 2 half glazed doors in centre with sash windows left and right. INTERIOR: refurbished 1940s, with central bar dispense serving 2 major bar rooms. Upper floors not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: built as an hotel by the Eastern Counties Railway, and served the Hertford Station in its original location, until the construction of the replacement Hertford East Station in the 1880s. The building is a near twin of the contemporary Station Hotel in Station Place, Ware.

Listing NGR: TL3326612959