CECIL HOUSE

CECIL HOUSE, 52, ST ANDREW STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1268744
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1950
List Entry Name:: CECIL HOUSE
Statutory Address:: CECIL HOUSE, 52, ST ANDREW STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1268744
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1950
List Entry Name:: CECIL HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: CECIL HOUSE, 52, 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:: CECIL HOUSE, 52, 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 32287 12587

Details

HERTFORD

TL3212NW ST ANDREW STREET 817-1/16/223 (North side) 10/02/50 No.52 Cecil House

GV II*

House, now offices. Main house 1774-78 (built by William Hanscomb under licence from the Gascoyne Cecil, Earl of Salisbury's estates), with outshut with some reused C17 timber; surgery to mid 1960s, now offices. Dark red-brown brick, Flemish bond, with orange-red dressings, sides and rear stuccoed. Old tiled double 'M' roof behind front parapet, with brick chimneys with projecting bands; old tile roof over rear outshut. Double-depth plan, four main rooms with central staircase-hall, with central service stair to right. EXTERIOR: 5-bay front block of 3 storeys and basement. First floor has 5 slightly recessed 12-pane sash windows, with exposed boxes, under red rubbed flat arches, with red brick jambs; second floor five 9-pane sashes; to ground-floor four 12-pane sashes, with segmental-arched openings to basement at pavement level. Plat bands at first and second floors and above second-floor windows. Central 'Strawberry Hill gothick' doorcase and porch. Recessed 6 traceried panel door, upper 4 glazed, and traceried 4-light fanlight, recessed in matching traceried panelled reveals, flanked by flat pilasters, from which project tented open-gabled canopy roof. Eaves cornice, traceried frieze at sides, and slender clustered columns with amulet rings and projecting bases, with matching responds. Shallow stone slab step to porch, and nosed stone step to entrance. Rear elevation has irregular fenestration, with landing sash windows dropped a half floor. 2-storey rear outshoot, first floor (former hayloft until 1965) with C20 casement windows and 1 flush-set sash at right; ground floor with two 16-pane sashes, and central door. INTERIOR: principal rooms remodelled late C19, and 6-panel doors on ground floor have Art Nouveau brass fingerplates. Hall has late C18 panelled dado. Former kitchen extends into rear outshoot, and has brick-arched fireplace. Dogleg stair with close string, Tuscan column newels, moulded handrail and panelled dado. Service stair has country Chippendale balustrade. First-floor rooms retain C18 moulded wood cornices of double cyma and frieze profile, front right-hand room has fire surround with eared architrave. Large rear room extends into

outshoot, and has long chamfered beam with tongue (possibly reused from earlier building on site), and C18 cornice, panelling and dado and door with 'L' pattern hinges. Attics have substantial cupboards. Roof has riven rafters, but thin ridge board, side purlins and collars above attic ceilings. Cellar access below back stair and main stair, brick walls and floor, battened doors, 3 main compartments, vaulted wine cellar and coal cellar. This was a substantial town house, notable for its fashionable porch and doorcase. Its name indicates its Salisbury family connection. (Hertfordshire Countryside: Forrester H: Hertford homes in Georgian days: Letchworth: 1946-1961: 150-152; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Hertfordshire: Harmondsworth: 1977-: 192; Smith JT: Hertfordshire Houses: Selective Inventory: London: 1993-: 88).

Listing NGR: TL3228712587

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 461501
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 192
Smith, J T, Hertfordshire Houses Selective Inventory, (1993), 88
'Hertfordshire Countryside' in Hertfordshire Countryside, (1946-1961), 150-152

Legal

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