19-31, CHURCH STREET

A terrace of houses, located at 19-31 Church Street, Hertford, was originally built in the 17th century and altered in the 18th and 19th centuries, with modernisations to the rear in the mid-20th century. The building is timber-framed and has a plastered first floor, with a pebbledashed and colourwashed finish. The ground floor is underbuilt in brown brick, laid in a Flemish bond pattern, with black-stained weatherboarding over colourwashed brick. The roof is old tiled, featuring four square red brick chimneys each with a band and orange clay pots along the ridge.

The terrace comprises two storeys, with each house having a single bay width, containing a front and rear room on each floor. The first floor has seven flush-set 12-pane sash windows with moulded architrave surrounds, mirroring the ground floor windows, one per house. The windows of numbers 23 and 31 have been replaced with 20th-century curved oriel bays, supported by cut profiled brackets. Original doorways, now mostly fitted with 20th-century half-glazed doors, retain architrave surrounds and slim board hoods on cut profiled brackets. Internally, the wall studding is of 17th/18th-century form with primary bracing. A 19th-century rear lean-to has been largely renewed with 20th-century casement windows. The interior has not been inspected.