5-11, ST ANDREW STREET

5-11, ST ANDREW STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1268766
Date first listed:
12-Apr-1973
List Entry Name:
5-11, ST ANDREW STREET
Statutory Address:
5-11, ST ANDREW STREET
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1268766
Date first listed:
12-Apr-1973
List Entry Name:
5-11, ST ANDREW STREET
Statutory Address 1:
5-11, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
5-11, 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 32416 12644

Details

HERTFORD

TL3212NW ST ANDREW STREET
817-1/16/203 (South side)
12/04/73 Nos.5-11 (Odd)

GV II

Terrace of 4 houses, now with shop, surgery and flats.
Early-mid C19. Grey-brown stock brick, Flemish Bond, stucco
bands, sills and moulded eaves fascia and cornice. Hipped
Welsh slated roofs, 4 multi-flue stock brick chimneys with
band, oversailing course and orange clay pots.
EXTERIOR: 9 bay facade with breaks and projections in ratio
1:1:2:1:2:1:1. Three storeys. First floor recessed 12-pane
sashes under rubbed flat arches with stucco sills to each bay
(blank recesses in outer left and right bays). Second floor
recessed 6-pane sashes, with equivalent blank recesses. Ground
floor has doorways in end bays, 4 panels, with 2 lower flush
panels, with traceried semicircular fanlights, reeded
surrounds and arched reveals and painted stucco bands above
similar doors to inner pair, Nos 7 & 9 from central
carriageway which has a segmental rubbed brick arch above, and
painted stucco impost bands. 12-pane sashes to other bays with
exception of No.11 which has a C20 shop window within C19
surround.
Rear elevation has 5 sash windows to first and second floors,
with low segmental arches ground floor 6 scattered windows and
2 doors (to Nos 5 & 7).
Exterior of No.11 has mid C19 cast-iron railing and gates on
Portland stone curb, with spear uprights, and gate with
trellis cross piece and arrow heads below.
INTERIOR: upper floors not inspected; ground floors opened out
and altered.
HISTORICAL NOTE: No.11 has a plaque inscribed to Alfred
Russell Wallace (1823-1913), Naturalist, Author and Scientist,
who lived here. Educated at Hertford Grammar School, Wallace
spent 4 years in the Amazon basin, then a further 8 in
South-East Asia. He was in touch with Darwin and Huxley, but
independently formulated the concept of 'natural selection'.
(Green L: Hertford's Past in pictures: Ware: 1993-: 163;
Hertfordshire Countryside: Lea J: Schooldays of a famous
scientist: Letchworth: 1946-1952: 52-3).





Listing NGR: TL3241612644

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
461481
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Green, L, Hertfords Past in Pictures, (1993), 163
Hertfordshire Countryside in Hertfordshire Countryside, (1946-1952), 52-53

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of 5-11, ST ANDREW STREET

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