Cawthorne
CAWTHORNE, 51, ST ANDREW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268743
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Cawthorne
- Statutory Address:
- CAWTHORNE, 51, ST ANDREW STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268743
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Cawthorne
- Statutory Address 1:
- CAWTHORNE, 51, ST ANDREW STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CAWTHORNE, 51, 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 32298 12564
Details
TL 3212 NW
817-1/16/222
HERTFORD,
ST ANDREW STREET (South side),
No.51, Cawthorne
10.02.50
GV
II
House, formerly antique showroom, now restaurant.
Late C16/early C17, front altered C18, with late C19 alterations, restored 1980s
(Architects Kirby Adair). Timber-framed, plastered front with
colour-washed brick left-hand (east) flank wall. Old tile roof
behind parapet front, above modillioned wood cornice,
PLAN: long single range plan with central entrance, large
left-hand (east) room with fireplace at far end, central
unheated staircase hall, 2 west rooms, one possibly an office,
and the other a dining room served from the kitchen in the
rear outshoot.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. Front elevation has 5
irregularly spaced flush set 16-pane sash windows with
projecting architrave surrounds, 4 similar but taller windows
on ground floor, with moulded wood band immediately above the
heads making the original jettied first floor. Central doorway
with recessed tie beam with mortices for braces, now removed.
Attics have exposed rafters with mortices for collars
indicating raising of ceiling. Reused timber includes a purlin
with diamond mortices, previously a window plate.
Roof with 4 hip roofed casement dormers, half hipped
right-hand (west) end, red brick chimneystack with projecting
band and 3 tapered square terracotta pots at left (east).
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(Hope Bagenal: The Georgian and Post Georgian Buildings of
Hertford: 1929-: 8; Forrester H: Timber-framed buildings in
Hertford and Ware: Hitchin: 1964-: 23-4; Smith JT: English
Houses 1200-1800: The Hertfordshire Evidence: London: 1992-:
164, 168; Smith JT: Hertfordshire Houses: Selective Inventory:
London: 1993-: 87-8; Turnor L: History of Hertford: Hertford:
1830-: 286; Green L: Hertford's Past in pictures: Ware: 1993-:
43, 57).
Listing NGR: TL3229812564
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461500
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Forrester, H, Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware, (1964), 23-24
Bagenal, H, The Georgian and Post Georgian Buildings of Hertford, (1929), 8
Smith, J T, English Houses 1200-1800 The Hertfordshire Evidence, (1994), 164 168
Smith, J T, Hertfordshire Houses Selective Inventory, (1993), 87-88
Green, L, Hertfords Past in Pictures, (1993), 43 57
Turnor, L, History of Hertford, (1830), 286
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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