20 AND 22, WEST STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268675
Date first listed:: 12-Apr-1973
List Entry Name:: 20 AND 22, WEST STREET
Statutory Address:: 20 AND 22, WEST STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268675
Date first listed:: 12-Apr-1973
List Entry Name:: 20 AND 22, WEST STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 20 AND 22, WEST STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 20 AND 22, WEST STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Hertford
National Grid Reference:: TL 32335 12319

Details

HERTFORD

TL3212SW WEST STREET 817-1/19/251 (North side) 12/04/73 Nos.20 AND 22

GV II

Hall house, now subdivided into 2 properties. Late C15, altered C18, extended into rear outshuts C19 and C20. Timber-framed, plastered first floor with ground floor underbuilt in black-painted brick. Old tile roof (replaced with clay tiles over No.22 at left (west)), gabled roof over rear outshut of No.20, pyramidal hipped roof over No.22, with C20 pantiled roof over single storey outshut beyond. Yellow-grey brick chimneystacks, that to No.22 well forward of roof ridge, and has red brick cover section. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 bay Wealden pattern hall house, with central 1 bay hall, left (west) end of building jettied. First floor has 3 nearly flush-set 9-pane sash windows with architrave surrounds. Ground floor has two 12-pane sashes, and doorway to No.20 to right, with C20 3-panel door and plain-glazed 2-light fanlight, between consoles supporting moulded cornice hood. Carriageway with garage doors at right. Door to No.22 on left flank elevation alongside exposed studwork beneath jetty, with brickwork of external chimneybreast at right. INTERIOR: No.20 contains the former hall bay, with inserted C17 floor above level of plate to upper floor of west wing and C17/18 infill studding below; C20 close string winder stair on rear wall, and opened out inglenook fireplace on right, with timber bressumer. At left C18 cupboard with panelled doors and butterfly hinges, with arched architrave surround and projecting keyblock. First floor has cambered tie beam visible in front right-hand (west) bedroom. Left-hand bedroom floored as a chamber within the hall. Wall plate and braces supporting 'flying eaves' of 1 bay Wealden Hall visible inside front wall. No.22 occupies the left-hand (west) wing. The ground floor front room has exposed heavy wide spaced studs, a C18 corner cupboard with shouldered architraves and a segmental head, and wood cornice. The sash window in the front wall is a post 1989 insertion. The first-floor front bedroom has exposed studding, and a blocked C15 diamond-mullioned 3-light unglazed wooden window immediately to the right of the late C18 sash. C18 cellar with red brick floor and walls. Roof: The attic of No.20 occupies the east bay of the roof and is approached by a C17 winder stair. Crown post roof, ceiled

at collar level with mortice for longitudinal bracing of crown post. C17 studwork in front of inserted brick chimneystack which disrupts collar purlin. Remainder of crown post structure in situ. Square unmoulded posts with fore and aft bracing of collar purlin, intensely smoke-blackened above former hall. Scarf joint in collar purlin above. Crown post which sits above wall plate of partition of west cross wing. There are vertical studs which are blackened only on the hall side and clean elsewhere indicating a lath and plaster infill, now removed. Ceiling lower over first floor of No.22 in west end bay. Rafters halved and pegged. HISTORICAL NOTE: this house is a comparatively late and simple vernacular version of the classic Wealden House, with a single bay hall, and entry disrupted by the inserted C17 chimney. From the undisturbed existence of the crown post and brace at the east end, behind the attic of No.20 it appears that the house was only jettied at the west end. (East Herts Archaeological Society Newsletter: Hertford: 1949-1962; Forrester H: Timber-framed buildings in Hertford and Ware: Hitchin: 1964-: 19; Smith JT: English Houses 1200-1800: The Hertfordshire Evidence: London: 1992-: 148).

Listing NGR: TL3233512319

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Legacy System number:: 461560
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Forrester, H , Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware, (1964), 19
Smith, J T, English Houses 1200-1800 The Hertfordshire Evidence, (1994), 148
'East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society Newsletter' in East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society Newsletter, (1949-1962)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.