Post Office
POST OFFICE, 1, ST ANDREW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268762
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE, 1, ST ANDREW STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268762
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST OFFICE, 1, 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:
- POST OFFICE, 1, 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 32441 12654
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212NW ST ANDREW STREET
817-1/16/199 (South side)
16/02/72 No.1
Post Office
GV II
House, now with ground floor shops and post office and flat
over. C15, with C17 and C19 alterations. Timber-framed
plastered front with masonry lining, ground floor underbuilt
in colourwashed brick. Old tiled roofs, with gabled cross wing
at right, carriageway at left.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics, raised bay over carriageway,
2-bay front with cross wing at right, extending rearwards as
outshut. First floor has 2-light wood casement above
carriageway, 2 widely spaced flush-set 12-pane sash windows
with architraves in centre and C20 3-light small-paned wood
casement at right. Ground floor has exposed posts at front of
carriageway and to right wall mounted postal box with
enamelled plate 'GR Post Office Letter Box' c1910. C19
shopfront has 2 display windows.
To left of central door is closed window with 8 large panes,
set in reeded pilaster surround. To right is segmental oriel
bow window, 10 large panes, bressumer at lower level is
visible inside. Full width board fascia with reeded mouldings
and overhanging flat moulded cornice. Doorway has twin leaf
half-glazed doors, with lower flush panel, recessed in twin
reeded pilaster surround, inner glazed door.
C20 hip roofed attic casement dormer at right of centre, box
casement dormer at rear. Short red brick chimneystack left
front, tall yellow brick chimneystack at rear.
INTERIOR: ground floor shop has heavy timber beam with chamfer
and tongue stop and is subdivided by timber open partition
with arched openings on line of stud partition above. Post
Office at right under jetty has C20 half-glazed door and
closed plate glass window to right. First floor has braced tie
beam truss at junction with rear outshut. Cross wing ceiled at
collar level and position of earlier windows visible either
side of 3-light casement in front wall of first floor front
room. Middle front room has C18 wood cornice. Attic has smoke
blackened rafters and mortices for collar purlins denoting
former crown post roof structure.
(Forrester H: Timber-framed buildings in Hertford and Ware:
Hitchin: 1964-: 10, 11).
Listing NGR: TL3244112654
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461477
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Forrester, H, Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware, (1964), 10 11
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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