Wallfields

HERTFORD

TL3212 PEG'S LANE 817-1/19/167 (West side) 27/05/86 Wallfields

II

House. c1810 with late C19 alterations, and extended in 1965. Built for Thomas Nicholson. Gault brick, with shallow-pitched slated roofs,bracketed eaves cornice and a central stack. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 bay centre, 2-storey west wing and 2-bay east wing, (the addition of 1965). Centre block has 2 ground and 3 first-floor sashes with glazing bars under flat Gault brick arches,and a wooden porch with simplified baseless Tuscan Doric columns and answering antae, and modillion cornice. Part glazed door c1900. First-floor whitened plaster plat-band. West wing has 3-sided mid C19 canted bay window, and 2 first-floor sashes. East wing reproduces details of C19 house. INTERIOR: central 3 bay vaulted corridor, archivolts carried on brackets, squint fan vault terminations to inner arch. Room to east has original fireplace. 2 flanking arches pierced through. Shallow relief reeded cornice. Room to west with cornice. Further room to west has c1840 interior, later C19 wooden fireplace with 'Neo-Grecian ' details. Impressive rear stairs hall has dogleg stair on 'S' curve plan, cantilevered stone risers, cast-iron balusters alternately on simple rectangular section and flattened vase with rosette, mahogany rail. Landing and corridor to central first-floor window share delicate anthemion frieze cornice, one axial and one right-hand arch on brackets to corridors. Room to west has reeded architrave fireplace, flattened relief cornice with paterae. Shutter boxes and moulded architrave surrounds to windows throughout; 4 panel raised and fielded doors throughout. HISTORICAL NOTE: Wallfields served as the offices of the former Hertford RDC before being taken over by the newly created East Hertfordshire District Council in 1974. Large extensions to west not of special interest.

Listing NGR: TL3241812244