21,23 AND 27, NORTH ROAD

HERTFORD

TL3212NW NORTH ROAD 817-1/16/128 (South side) 10/02/50 Nos.21, 23 AND 27

GV II

Semi-detached houses. c1825. Stucco front, brown stock brick laid to Flemish bond at rear and to outshoots. Hipped Welsh slate roofs above moulded cornice, with widely spaced modillions, and central stuccoed multi-flue chimneystack. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 4-bay front, with recessed 2-storey, 3-bay wings, stuccoed with hipped Welsh slated roofs, both wings extended to full frontage of sites. Second floor with 4 recessed 9-pane sash windows; first floor with 4 recessed 12-pane sash windows above band. Ground floor has 4 recessed 15-pane sash windows, with semicircular heads set within outer arched recess with projecting impost band, stucco plinth. Wings subdivided by pilaster strips and bands, with arched entrances with 6-panel doors and semicircular fanlights. Rear elevations have 2 sash windows first and second floors, 20-pane and 15-pane, including narrow margin panes, under rubbed brick arches; ground floor has 2 x 20-pane sashes recessed within elliptical arches. INTERIOR: not inspected. This development was part of the growth of Hertford along North Road towards the County Hospital during the late 1820s. It was shown as 'North Crescent' on an 1830 map. (Hertfordshire Countryside: Forrester H: Hertford homes in Georgian days: Letchworth: 1946-1961: 150-152; Green L: Hertford's Past in pictures: Ware: 1993-: 44; Turnor L: History of Hertford: Hertford: 1830-; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Hertfordshire: Harmondsworth: 1977-: 193).

Listing NGR: TL3208212585