54, Fishpool Street

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TL 1407 SW 8/39 8.5.50

FISHPOOL STREET (north side) No 52

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With No 54. Late C18 fronts to a C17 range of buildings: 2 storeys, 3 windows. Red brick; steep, swept, tiled roof with wood box eaves. 1st floor windows casements with glazing bars in flush, box frames under shallow segmental, gauged, brick arches. Flat, gauged, brick arches to ground floor sash windows with glazing bars in flush, moulded frames. Doorcase has open, pediment-shaped head, with dentil cornice and cut soffit, resting on similar cornice ends over carved, scrolled consoles on panelled pilasters. Within the pediment a blank panel framed between tiny pilasters with Adam decoration at either side. Deep panelled reveals to door, under cut and reeded architrave. Weatherboarded rear extension with hipped, tiled gable. 1914-18 was memorial tablet set in wall, one of a series of wall plaques in St Albans which commemorate the fallen of individual streets and localities. Nos 24 to 46 (even) and Nos 50 to 54 (even) form a group.

1. 1582 TL 1407 SW 8/39

FISHPOOL STREET (North Side) No 54

II GV

2. With No 52. Early C19 front to C17 range of buildings. Two storeys and sunk basement, two windows first floor, two windows between doors on ground floor. Red brick with diaper of blue headers, high pitched tiled roof and moulded wood eaves cornice. First floor, two-light casement windows, with glazing bars, directly under cornice. Gauged, segmental, brick arches to ground floor doors and windows, all recessed. Glazing bars to windows. Right door is glazed, left door is early C19, with two fielded and three flat panels.

Nos 24 to 46 (even) and Nos 50 to 54 (even) form a group.

Listing NGR: TL1418907176