Description

HERTFORD

TL3212NE RAILWAY STREET
817-1/17/183 (South side)
12/04/73 Nos.6 AND 8

GV II

Includes: No.2 SALISBURY SQUARE.
One building; houses, with ground floors progressively
converted to shops from mid C19. Early/mid C19, with C20
alterations. Yellow-brown brick, laid to Flemish bond, with
stucco dressings. Welsh slated roof over bracketed eaves,
hipped around splayed corner at right (west) over No.2
Salisbury Square. Yellow brick chimneystack with projecting
band and 6 tall orange clay pots.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; first floor has 3 irregularly spaced
12-pane sash windows recessed under rubbed brick flat arches,
immediately above stucco sill band. Second floor with 4 square
voids, 3 with 9-pane sashes, second from left a dummy, all
with stucco sills. Splayed right-hand corner has first floor
recess, with rubbed brick semicircular arch, with dummy window
recess on second floor.
The return elevation to Salisbury Square has 2 first-floor
windows, and 1 window and dummy at right on second floor.
Ground floor with shopfronts of various designs: at left No.8
has C19 shopfront with closed plate glass window in moulded
timber-frame, above glazed tile stallriser, to right is half
glazed door above stone step, recessed in projecting surround;
fascia with flat-modillioned cornice above: No.6 has cut
bracketed doorhood (above C20 glazed door), and to right plate
glass display window in void originally occupied by sash
window, surrounding brickwork colourwashed above stucco
plinth.
Corner shopfront of No.2 Salisbury Square renewed with late
C20 small-paned windows and glazed door with pilaster surround
and pediment. The surrounding masonry is stuccoed and
colourwashed below first-floor sill band.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Together with Nos 10 & 12 Railway Street adjoining (qv) this
development reflects the growing importance of shops in mid
C19 Hertford.
No.2 Salisbury Square is included on the list for the first
time.

Listing NGR: TL3269812646

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559071

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)