Description

HERTFORD

TL3312NW WARE ROAD
817-1/18/237 (North side)
No.45
The Saracen's Head Public House

GV II

House, now public house. Mid C19, extended late C19. Yellow
stock brick, Flemish bond, ground floor orange-red glazed
brick, Flemish bond. Hipped Welsh slated roof, with yellow
brick chimneys with oversailing courses and cream terracotta
pots.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. First floor has 3 recessed 12-pane sash
windows beneath rubbed brick flat arches, on east elevation
facing Railway Place, 2 to Ware Road elevation. Ground floor
has late C19 flat roofed extension wrapping around corner in
red-orange glazed brick. This has moulded cornice, stone
coping, and ornamental cast-iron arcade headed plate glass
sash windows, stone lintels with chamfered arrises, C20 glazed
door and sidelight substituted right-hand side of Ware Road
elevation. Double and triple windows facing Railway Place.
Entrance on corner with half glazed door with margin glazing
and arcaded top bar, rectangular fanlight above, exposed
lintel.
Fascia has 2 modelled swags, flanking pilasters, moulded caps
and cornice and semicircular brick arcaded, stone coped upper
panel with a modelled and coloured 'Saracen's Head' against a
background of raised scrolled vines, leaves and grapes.
Cast-iron voluted finial above.
INTERIOR: 2 bars with simply detailed central servery, walls
with boarded dados. Upper floor not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: north of the Ware Road was developed from the
1840s following the opening of the Eastern Counties Station at
the head of Railway Place. The 'Saracen's Head' was probably
built as a house, although it is shown as a public house on
the 1870s First Edition Ordnance Survey. The front extension
was probably built shortly after the 1898 updated map, the
last on which it does not appear.

Listing NGR: TL3332812857

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558995

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