114 AND 116, FORE STREET

HERTFORD

TL3212NE FORE STREET 817-1/17/88 (South side) Nos.114 AND 116

GV II

House, now offices. Mid C19, with later C19 rear outshut. Brick, stuccoed on front and right (west) flank elevations, red brick, laid to Flemish bond at rear, and rear outshut with flush bands and imposts of Staffordshire blue brick. Welsh slated roof with shallow bracket eaves and pommelled soffit at front, hipped roof over rear outshut. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 5-bay facade. First floor has 5 recessed 12-pane sashes, with moulded architrave stucco surrounds, and sills with projecting block supports at each end. Second floor has 5 squatter 9-pane sashes, with stucco sills rusticated quoins at left and right. Ground floor rusticated, with 4 recessed 12-pane sash windows with stucco sills, central doorway, 3 stone steps above street, with Tuscan pilasters, raised carved consoles, entablature with fascia running full width of building, and triangular pediment with heavy moulded cornice. Right (west) flank elevation has arched windows ground and first floor, flat-headed on second floor, with moulded sill and impost bands, the latter arched as dripmoulds over first-floor windows, below moulded eaves cornice. Rear elevation of main building has sash windows on second floor, long casements on first floor with plat band at second-floor level. Rear outshut with plate glazed sashes, rear (south) elevation with 1 sash left and right of corbelled chimneybreast. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TL3284912635