Numbers 37, 39 And 41 Including Garden Door And Garden Wall To Number 41

Numbers 37, 39, and 41 consist of semi-detached houses dating to circa 1825. The front of the houses is stuccoed, while the sides and rear are built of brown stock brick laid in a Flemish bond pattern. The roofs are hipped and covered in Welsh slate, featuring a moulded cornice with widely spaced modillions. A central chimney stack is finished with bands and orange clay pots.

The houses are arranged with three storeys and a four-bay front, with recessed two-storey, three-bay wings extending across the side. The wing on the left forms a separate dwelling, Number 37. The second floor has four recessed nine-pane sash windows; the first floor has four recessed twelve-pane sash windows above a decorative band. The ground floor features four recessed fifteen-pane sash windows with semicircular heads, set within outer arched recesses with projecting impost bands rising from a stucco plinth. Recessed wings are behind and above original single-bay ground floor porches, each featuring a recessed six-panel door and a semicircular fanlight. Two sash windows are visible on each first floor wing, between pilaster strips and decorative bands. The ground floor of the left-hand wing features a projecting bay window with panelled pilasters, a frieze, and cornice. An arched doorway with a six-panel door and semicircular fanlight is located at the far left. The right-hand wing of Number 41 has a large sixteen-pane sash window on the ground floor.

The side elevation of Number 41 features segmentally arched recesses with imposts and keyblocks. The rear elevation has two windows on each of the ground, first, and second floors in the central three-storey section, with irregular fenestration to the wings. A long, narrow two-storey stuccoed rear outshoot with a Welsh slated roof extends from Number 37.

The interior of the houses was not inspected during the listing assessment.

A red brick garden wall, laid in a Flemish bond pattern with overburnt headers, is situated at the west rear of Number 41. A stucco panel within the wall contains a six-panel door with the upper two panels glazed, recessed within a moulded surround and topped with a projecting dripmould.

These houses formed part of the expansion of Hertford along North Road towards the County Hospital in the late 1820s and were originally known as ‘North Crescent’ on an 1830 map.