56, ST ANDREW STREET
56, ST ANDREW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268746
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 56, ST ANDREW STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 56, ST ANDREW STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268746
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 56, ST ANDREW STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 56, 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:
- 56, 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 32269 12574
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212NW ST ANDREW STREET
817-1/16/225 (North side)
12/04/73 No.56
GV II
House, now with ground floor shop and flat over. Early/mid
C18, with C20 alterations. Red brick front, Flemish bond with
some overburnt grey headers, plastered right-hand side and
rear, pebbledashed left-hand side. Old tiled double gabled 'M'
roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. Front has 2 flush set sash
windows, with glazing bars in upper sash only, with moulded
architrave surrounds. First-floor level plat band, ground
floor now with central mid C20 shopfront with glazed door and
multi-pane window replacing former window and 6-fielded
panelled door under hood on consoles (already noted as removed
at time of survey for 1973 list).
Roof with gabled casement dormer left of centre; with high
central valley parallel to street, and with deep moulded wood
cornice on street facade, 2 tall red brick chimneystacks with
projecting band and 3 long orange clay pots, at left.
Rear has 2-storey Victorian 2-sash bay window, and long narrow
single storey weatherboarded outshoot with old tile roof.
INTERIOR: several rooms retain C18 moulded wood cornices, with
panelled dados in first- and ground-floor front rooms, C19 and
early C20 grates and surrounds. Newel stair with moulded close
string, with urn and barleysugar twist balusters and moulded
handrail and simple panelled dado, continues to attics with
plain stick balusters.
HISTORICAL NOTE: this house was occupied by Lord Salisbury's
agent during C18: the Gascoyne Cecil family had extensive
property holdings in the town, eg. Cecil House, No.52 nearby
(qv).
Listing NGR: TL3226912574
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461503
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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