2, ST ANDREW STREET

Details

HERTFORD

TL3212NW ST ANDREW STREET
817-1/16/200 (North side)
10/02/50 No.2

GV II*

House, now shop with dental surgery above. C17 comprehensively
rebuilt early/mid C18, altered and shopfront inserted late
C19. Dark red brick, Flemish bond, with pale orange dressings.
Old tiled roof concealed by parapet. Square red brick
chimneystack on ridge right of centre.
PLAN: resembles a 3 cell lobby entry type. Main front has 7
bays, 2 narrow bays each side of a central 3 bay unit which
breaks forward as do the pilasters at each end of the facade.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement. First floor has slightly
recessed 8-pane sash windows beneath rubbed brick segmental
arches with triple keystones at sides, and three 12-pane sash
windows with quintuple keystones in central bays, spaced
2:3:2, with right centre a blank recess.
Second floor has squatter 8- and 12-pane sashes, under
segmental arches without keystones, bays 1, 3, 5, 7 blank
recesses. Elaborate brick cornice with dentils and moulded
bands.
Ground floor has doorway at left, 8 fielded panelled door
above 3 stone steps, recessed in panelled reveals with shallow
segmental head. Doorcase with rusticated Tuscan Doric
pilasters, entablature with moulded keyblock, triglyph frieze,
deep cornice, 8-pane sash window to right of doorcase.
5 right-hand bays reconstructed with shopfront in late C19,
with 5 equal openings out of alignment with bays above, Queen
Anne revival style with panelled pilasters with moulded brick
sunflowers alternating with checkerboards with interlaced
initials WS denoting 'Wigginton and Son'. Recessed toplights
alternate with pairs of recessed three quarter glazed doors,
with bolection mould around lower panel, and rectangular plain
glazed fanlights, all in brick reveals, with red rubbed brick
flat arches with projecting keyblocks with raised modelled
sunflowers.
Brick stallrisers beneath windows, with cast-iron filigree
grilles to basement, 3 stone steps to doorways. Oxblood
encaustic tiled fascia with square block of foliated ornament
and 'Wigginton and Son' in orange block capitals within orange
margin band, ends of fascia terminate in twin moulded red
sandstone console brackets, and roll moulded cornice beneath
first-floor window sills.
Return right-hand (east) flank elevation to Old Cross stuccoed


and blank on first and second floors, plat band at first-floor
level, and twin bands just below cornice level. Ground floor
has shopfront c1840. Closed shop window with large, nearly
square panes, moulded architrave surround, stucco pilasters on
plinths with torus bases, and elaborate moulded stucco
foliated consoles flanking panelled fascia, with bold moulded
cornice; stucco stallriser with central basement hatch with
twin wrought-iron gates, with ogee tracery and quatrefoil
band.
INTERIOR: ground floor opened out as large shop unit, around
west and north is a run of bold early/mid C18 double cyma and
torus moulded wood cornice, cast-iron columns in centre
support chimneystack above. Staircase leads from hall at left
'L' plan with lower flight open string with bracketed treads
and iron twist balusters, a C19 reworking following creation
of shop to east, upper flights continue to second floor, and
are close string construction with iron twist and column on
bobbin balusters and ramped moulded handrail, and dado.
First-floor rooms retain some moulded wood cornices, but the
corridor is a later creation. Back stair against chimneystack
gives evidence for original lobby entry plan. C19 north wing
blocks landing window of main west stair.
(Forrester H: Timber-framed buildings in Hertford and Ware:
Hitchin: 1964-: 25; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N:
Hertfordshire: Harmondsworth: 1977-: 192; Smith JT: English
Houses 1200-1800: The Hertfordshire Evidence: London: 1992-:
162; Smith JT: Hertfordshire Houses: Selective Inventory:
London: 1993-: 86-7).


Listing NGR: TL3243912673

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Sources

Books and journals
Forrester, H, Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware, (1964), 25
Smith, J T, English Houses 1200-1800 The Hertfordshire Evidence, (1994), 162
Smith, J T, Hertfordshire Houses Selective Inventory, (1993), 86-87
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 192

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