YEOMANRY HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS

YEOMANRY HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS, 28, ST ANDREW STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1268733
Date first listed:: 12-Apr-1973
List Entry Name:: YEOMANRY HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: YEOMANRY HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS, 28, ST ANDREW STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1268733
Date first listed:: 12-Apr-1973
List Entry Name:: YEOMANRY HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: YEOMANRY HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS, 28, ST ANDREW STREET

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

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

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.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: YEOMANRY HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT AREA RAILINGS, 28, ST ANDREW 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 32363 12648

Details

HERTFORD

TL3212NW ST ANDREW STREET 817-1/16/212 (North side) 12/04/73 No.28 Yeomanry House and attached front area railings

GV II*

House, now Territorial Army centre. c1725 with C20 alterations and extensions. Grey brick, Flemish bond, with red dressings. Old tiled roofs concealed by tall parapet with flat stone coping. PLAN: central entrance plan, 1 room depth, 3 rooms on each floor, 1 to west, 2 smaller to east, with C19 outshut. EXTERIOR: 5 bay facade, 2 storeys and attic above. Baroque style front elevation. Giant Roman Ionic pilasters left and right, grey brick with red quoins, plinth and base with torus moulding, carved stone capitals, entablature with red brick fascia, brick dentils and moulded bands. Pilasters continue as plain responds across attic storey. First floor has 5 windows, 3 flush-set 12-pane sashes with architrave surrounds, 2 at left and 1 in centre, with recessed 12-pane sashes in 2 right-hand (east) bays, all under segmental rubbed red brick arches, with red brick reveals. Attic storey has 5 similar but slightly shorter windows with raised triple keystones in rubbed brickwork projecting above extrados of arches. Ground floor has 4 flush-set windows, 2 at left without intermediate horizontal glazing bars; 2 at right 12-pane, all beneath segmental rubbed brick arches with raised triple keystones. Central doorway with stone threshold and 2 stone steps. 8-fielded panelled door in architrave frame, with brick door surround, Roman Ionic pilasters with stone plinths, entablature above with dentils and cornice and segmental pediment. Central first-floor window above framed by aedicule with smaller scale Roman Ionic pilasters, entablature and segmental pediment with dentils, the cornice breaking through the dentil course of the main cornice of the building. Left and right flank elevations blank. Large C20 extensions at rear not of special interest. INTERIOR: simple panelled hall with dado, arch with fluted pilasters, moulded fascia, keyblock. 6-panel doors, rooms on ground and first floor retain panelling and heavy moulded wood cornices, but fireplaces altered. Open-well dogleg stair with column newels, iron twist column on bobbin balusters, open string with carved bracketed treads and bold moulded ramped

handrails, panelled dado with ramped rail, panelled walls to first floor landing. Attic storey rooms now largely remodelled. Roof structure not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: fine C18 wrought-iron railings around front basement area. (Hope Bagenal: The Georgian and Post Georgian Buildings of Hertford: 1929-: 11; Hertfordshire Countryside: Forrester H: Hertford Homes in Queen Anne's Day: Letchworth: 1946-1960: 104-107; Hertfordshire Countryside: Moodey G: Georgian brickwork of the choicest sort: Letchworth: 1946-1973: 27; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Hertfordshire: Harmondsworth: 1977-: 192; Smith JT: English Houses 1200-1800: The Hertfordshire Evidence: London: 1992-: 167; Smith JT: Hertfordshire Houses: Selective Inventory: London: 1993-: 87).

Listing NGR: TL3236312648

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 461490
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Bagenal, H, The Georgian and Post Georgian Buildings of Hertford, (1929), 11
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 192
Smith, J T, English Houses 1200-1800 The Hertfordshire Evidence, (1994), 167
Smith, J T, Hertfordshire Houses Selective Inventory, (1993), 87
'Hertfordshire Countryside' in Hertfordshire Countryside, (1946-1973), 27
'Hertfordshire Countryside' in Hertfordshire Countryside, (1946-1960), 104-107

Legal

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