17-23, ST ANDREW STREET

Details

HERTFORD

TL3212NW ST ANDREW STREET
817-1/16/206 (South side)
12/04/73 Nos.17-23 (Odd)

GV II

Hall house, subsequently tenements with shops, now shops, and
storage. Late C15 extended and floored C17, C19 alterations.
Timber-framed and plastered, left (east) flank weatherboarded.
Old tiled roof with grey brown brick chimneystack at left
(east), square red brick chimneystack with band and 4 long
orange pots on ridge in centre.
EXTERIOR: 2 bay Wealden Hall house with storeyed bays left and
right, extended eastwards 1 bay; 2-storey and attics. First
floor has 4 irregularly spaced flush-set sash windows of
different sizes, 20:12:12:12:16 pane. Jettied overhang with
brackets, and C19 and C20 shopfronts and shop windows below.
No.17 has 2 plate glass closed windows with central mullion,
between 2 pilasters, head of former bow window above,
half-glazed door to right; No.19 has timber-framed plate glass
closed window; half-glazed door in position of former door
into hall; No.21 has closed plate glass window at left, C20
glazed door, and C20 square plate glass oriel carried on cut
brackets at right; No.23 has door with upper glazed panel,
with panelled fanlight, with pierced vent, above, late C19
plate glass window in heavy timber-frame at right.
Rear elevation much altered and extended. Broad timber-framed
pebbledashed 2-storey wing at left behind No.23, lean-to
extension behind No.19, slated catslide roof at rear of No.17.
INTERIOR: framing and studwork exposed within each individual
unit. No.17 has a central chamfered and tongue-stopped beam,
rear wall removed. Attic has evidence for raising roof,
original arrangement appears to have had windbracing, now
removed, spreading of roof necessitated installation of
wrought-iron tie rods in C19. Exposed heavy studwork in party
wall with No.19 at first-floor levels indicates outer wall of
east cross wing.
No.19 contains the structure of the east cross wing and a C17
inserted chimneystack. Ground floor has mortices for studs, a
3-light window and downward curving bracing in wall plate
beneath jetty and adjoining heavy jowled post, which appears
to have had the original front door immediately to the west.
The existence of a cambered tie beam with mortices for arch
bracing at first-floor level suggests that the first floor was
open to the hall below.
No.21 is double fronted and contained the 2 bay hall. The ground floor contains some C17 panelling, and a very heavy post for the central truss, heavily moulded on post and tie
beam visible on inserted chamber floor, much cut back to
create headroom, and with arch braces missing, apart from a
small portion. Inserted stack has 3 canted arched fireplace on
first floor.
No.23 contains the west storeyed wing with 2 blocked doorways.
Roof structure of whole block raised C17 to create additional
first-floor headroom and attics. Upper roof structure above
attics not accessible.
(Smith JT: English Houses 1200-1800: The Hertfordshire
Evidence: London: 1992-: 148; Smith JT: Hertfordshire Houses:
Selective Inventory: London: 1993-: 87).

Listing NGR: TL3238312633

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Sources

Books and journals
Smith, J T, English Houses 1200-1800 The Hertfordshire Evidence, (1994), 192
Smith, J T, Hertfordshire Houses Selective Inventory, (1993), 87

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