. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE hall, has been destroyed ; and a solar wing of two stories on the south, ihe outlines of which can still be traced. No early details of the interior remain except parts of two trusses of the hall roof, of the hammer-beam type, 19 ft. span, with moulded wall- plates. The nest two houses, which originally formed one house, are of a little later date, being of the 15th century. The hall appears to have been in the upper story which projects over the street. On the overhanging gable above the archway on t
. The Victoria history of the county of Hertford. Natural history. A HISTORY OF HERTFORDSHIRE hall, has been destroyed ; and a solar wing of two stories on the south, ihe outlines of which can still be traced. No early details of the interior remain except parts of two trusses of the hall roof, of the hammer-beam type, 19 ft. span, with moulded wall- plates. The nest two houses, which originally formed one house, are of a little later date, being of the 15th century. The hall appears to have been in the upper story which projects over the street. On the overhanging gable above the archway on the south is the date 1729 in the plaster, but the posts supporting the beam of the arch have 15th-century moulded capitals supporting the curved angle brackets. To the west ofQu are the Biggin Almshi the 17th century. They round a small courtyard, c a wooden colonnade form contains a small set of rooi of two stories and an attic Street, i, built pi; different dates. Thire is a Corn Exchange in th iear the River Hiz, n the early part of it of four wings built west side of which is cloister. Each wing each floor. They are It of timbe They have been much altered The new town hall in BranJ Street is dated This has superseded an older one built in 1 840. Among other public building) may be noticed the Mechanics' Institute and public subscription library adjoining the old town hall. There is a large infirmary called the North Herts and South Beds Infirmary in the Bedford Road, which was erected in 1840. The Home for girls of weak and defective intelligence, in the Triangle, was built in 1893. The Girls' Grammar School, which was built at the cost of £13,000, was opened in July 1908. The Boys' Grammar School is a continuation of the Free School founded by John Mattock in 1650 and removed to new buildings about twenty years ago. Among the past inhabitants of Hitchin was George Chapman the poet. He is best known as trans- lator of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, but also wrote other p
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