The Shire Hall is a municipal building in Fore Street, Hertford, the county town of Hertfordshire, England.
[1] The building was commissioned to replace an earlier Sessions House which had been built in 1560 and demolished in 1768.
[1] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with nine bays facing onto the Market Place with the end three bays on both sides slightly projected forwards; the central section of three bays featured a triple arched doorway on the ground floor and a triple sash window divided by two Ionic order columns on the first floor.
[1] Pevsner describes the building as "completely unadorned unless the two curved projections on the north and south are accepted as ornamental".
[9] A substantial council chamber, sometimes referred to as the "Round Room" or the "Rotunda", was established on the first floor.