24, CASTLE STREET

Details

HERTFORD

TL3212SE CASTLE STREET
817-1/20/30 (North side)
10/02/50 No.24

GV II

Castle gatehouse and lodge, now converted and extended as
solicitors' offices. c1800, arch infilled and building
extended westwards early C20. Yellow-brown stock brick,
Flemish bond, with red dressings, Welsh slated, and lead flat
roofs concealed behind castellated parapets with stone copings
and red brick Tudor style clustered shafted octagonal
chimneys.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. The right-hand section with 2 octagonal
turrets was the gateway to the castle, and had a high central
Tudor arch, infilled c1904, and replaced by a 4-light wood
casement window, with arched Tudor heads, in the same style as
the original, of 2 lights on the first floor above. The
turrets have machicolations and a Lombard frieze. To left is
former lodge, with a recessed 2-storey link with 3-light
windows ground and first floors, then a higher block, 2
left-hand bays original, with two 3-light windows on first
floor, ground floor with 4-light window and projecting porch,
yellow brick with red dressings, with Tudor arched opening and
castellated parapet. Building extended 3 bays in line further
west c1904, first floor with 3 windows, one, now centre,
double length, 2 below, with basement window beneath longer
stair window. Rear elevation much altered with modern windows.
INTERIOR: much altered during office conversion. Room above
arch has vaulted ceiling; stair in 1904 extensions close
string dogleg plan with narrow open well, balusters with
pulvinated square columns and newels, moulded oak handrail.
Together with No.20 (qv) this building is the headquarters of
Longmores the solicitors, who as a family had served the
Borough as Town Clerks, and the County Council over several
generations since the 1830s.
(Hertfordshire Countryside: Forrester H: Hertford homes in
Georgian days: Letchworth: 1946-1961: 150-152; Green L:
Hertford's Past in pictures: Ware: 1993-: 21).



Listing NGR: TL3258612446

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Sources

Books and journals
Green, L, Hertfords Past in Pictures, (1993), 21
Hertfordshire Countryside in Hertfordshire Countryside, (1946-1961), 150-152

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