Whitacre

HERTFORD

TL3213SW PORT HILL, Bengeo 817-1/15/283 (West side) 12/04/73 Whitacre (Formerly Listed as: PORT VALE Whitacre)

II

Villa. c1840, reputedly a remodelling of earlier house. Colourwashed brick, Welsh slated hipped roof with broad panelled eaves soffit, cast-iron verandahs. Central entrance with 3-bay south elevation. EXTERIOR: 2-storey front 3-storey rear. South elevation has full width verandah ground and first floors, slender cast-iron columns and storey beams, 5 bays, first floor with pierced segmental arcade heads, Gothic railings with interlaced ogee heads and quatrefoils, arcaded glazed panels at sides on ground floor. Main elevation of building recessed, subdivided into 3 bays by shallow pilaster strips. First floor has tall plain glazed sash windows left and right and tall French windows with 12-panes in centre. Ground floor with 2 segmental bow windows, each with 2 plain glazed sashes, and central 2 fold 4-panel door, upper 2 glazed beneath semicircular fanlight with radiating tracery with slim pilaster and surround. Stone paved verandah and 2 stone steps. Projecting single storeyed polygonal bay window at right, with 3 sashes and low pitched Welsh slated roof with lead roll hips. Subsidiary elevations have irregular fenestration, with a plat band on the west at first-floor level indicating the possibility of comprehensive remodelling of an earlier building on the site. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TL3226713120