15, West Street

HERTFORD

TL3212SW WEST STREET 817-1/19/247 (South side) 12/04/73 No.15

GV II

House. Early C19. Yellow stock brick, Flemish Bond, Welsh slated roof over broad eaves with paired shallow brackets, hipped over rear outshoot and range, yellow brick chimneystacks. Central staircase plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. First floor has 3 recessed 12-pane sash windows, under rubbed slightly cambered arches, with painted stone sills. First-floor level plat band. Ground floor has 2 similar windows, either side of central doorway, with 6-panel door, with raised and fielded panels with bolection moulded surrounds, recessed with flanking fluted quarter Doric columns below traceried fanlight with circle and petal motifs, all set in double semicircular rubbed brick arched recess. 3 Portland stone steps to door, floor level corresponding with line of stucco plinth. Rear elevation has French windows with large panes and margin glazing at right. Rear outshoot forms a lower 2-storey range, with 9-pane sashes on first floor and altered fenestration on ground floor; this building is shared with No.17 adjoining (qv). INTERIOR: not inspected. (Hope Bagenal: The Georgian and Post Georgian Buildings of Hertford: 1929-: 20-1; Hertfordshire Countryside: Forrester H: Hertford homes in Georgian days: Letchworth: 1946-1961: 150-152; Hertfordshire Countryside: Moodey G: Georgian brickwork of the choicest sort: Letchworth: 1946-1973: 27).

Listing NGR: TL3238212329