25, West Street

HERTFORD

TL3212SW WEST STREET 817-1/19/252 (South side) 12/04/73 No.25

GV II

House. Early/mid C19. Yellow-grey stock brick, Flemish Bond with stucco doorcase and plinth. Welsh slated roof. 2 yellow brick chimneystacks with bands and oversailing courses, orange clay pots, right-hand chimney taller to surmount 2nd floor of No.27 adjoining to west. Central staircase plan. 3 bay facade slightly cranked in centre to follow street frontage. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attics and basement. First floor has 3 mid C19 sash windows with divided glazing under cambered rubbed brick arches, central window narrower. Ground floor has 2 similar windows and central doorway raised above 4 nosed stone steps flanked by simple wrought-iron railings. 8 raised and fielded panel door, lower 2 with arched heads, reputedly brought from Bailey Hall and reset, plain glazed rectangular fanlight, with rusticated stucco Gibbs surround. Recessed segmentally arched basement windows in plinth. Roof with 1 box casement dormer at right. Rear has margin glazed French windows at right, projecting rear outshoot at left formerly containing washhouse and stable. INTERIOR: Drawing Room, right-hand ground floor has white marble C19 fireplace surround, with shelf supported on moulded consoles, plaster cove and scotia cornice. Staircase dogleg plan with narrower open well, open string, stick balusters, moulded handrail, Tuscan column newels. Cellars with brick paviour and stone flagged floors, wine cellar at rear with stone staging and brick support.

Listing NGR: TL3235312311