20, Castle Street

HERTFORD

TL3212SE CASTLE STREET 817-1/20/29 (West side) 12/04/73 No.20

GV II

House, now offices. Mid/late C18 front to slightly earlier structure, with late C20 alterations. Red brick, Flemish bond, with some overburnt headers, orange-red dressings, sides and rear plastered over timber-frame, three quarter hipped old tiled roof. Central entry plan, 3-bay front. EXTERIOR: first floor has 2 triple 4:12:4-pane sashes, and central 12-pane sash, recessed beneath rubbed brick arches. First floor plat band. Ground floor has 2 triple 4:12:4-pane sashes. Central recessed 6-panel door with panelled reveals,architrave surround, doorcase with Tuscan Doric pilasters, entablature with triglyph frieze and panelled metopes and flat modillioned moulded cornice. Portland stone threshold. Roof with 3 box casement dormers (outer 3-light, central 2-light), square red brick chimneystacks. Rear outshut of 2 storeys, with weatherboarded upper floor, linked to large modern rear outshut which is not of special interest. INTERIOR: much altered, some C18 cornices, stair with Tuscan column newels, stick balusters and moulded handrails. Roof with riven and sawn rafters, thin ridge board. (Hertfordshire Countryside: Forrester H: Hertford homes in Georgian days: Letchworth: 1946-1961: 150-152).

Listing NGR: TL3259812459