22 AND 24, ST ANDREW STREET

Details

HERTFORD

TL3212NW ST ANDREW STREET
817-1/16/208 (North side)
12/04/73 Nos.22 AND 24

GV II

House, now shops and offices, early C17, altered C19 and
extended C20. Timber-framed and stuccoed, double gabled old
tiled roofs, with early C19 Gothick moulded and traceried
barge boards and cut pinnacle finials and pendants, facing
street, Welsh slated, C19 raised infill between gables at
rear. Red brick chimneystack of 2 back-to-back shafts with
oversailing band and orange clay pots centre right.
Double-depth plan with 2 bay jettied front.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics. First floor has 2 flush-set
12-pane sash windows with architrave surrounds. Attics have 2
squat 6 paned sashes high in gables. Ground floor recessed
beneath jetty. At left, 6-panel door, upper 2 glazed, in
rusticated plaster surround gives access to No.26 adjoining
(qv), C19 shopfront with closed plate glass display window
above brown glazed brick stallriser, flanked by pilasters with
foliated consoles between jetty. Three quarter glazed door
left of centre with rusticated stuccoed pilasters. Main shop
window at right divided into 3 lights by moulded mullions with
stallriser, pilasters and consoles at left.
Rear has large lean-to outshut at left, 2-storey
weatherboarded outshut with old tiled roof and substantial
external yellow brick chimney behind No.24.
INTERIOR: ground floor opened out into single retail area
around central chimneystack with back-to-back fireplaces
originally serving 2 north rooms. Heavy exposed timbers in
ceiling. Right front (east) has a beam, with mortices for
studwork, running inwards indicating a corridor and a
transverse beam with chamfer and tongue stop with shutter
grooves and mortices for mullion suggesting an inner partition
closing off a shop, possibly original, on the front ground
floor right (east).
Early C19 stair, dogleg, with newel and windows, to first
floor, alongside stack, now exposed as brickwork with remains
of coarse straw parging. Principal fireplace faces front right
(east) room, with much repaired C17 plank door, now opening
into lobby created to avoid passing through west room.
Attic above east rooms in 2 levels indicating raised ceiling
at front, rafters much renewed but mortices for collars in a
pair of halved and pegged rafters above the tie beam suggests
that a crown post structure was removed to create the east attic. Roof over west not inspected.
(Forrester H: Timber-framed buildings in Hertford and Ware:
Hitchin: 1964-: 17-8; Smith JT: English Houses 1200-1800: The
Hertfordshire Evidence: London: 1992-: 160, 162; Smith JT:
Hertfordshire Houses: Selective Inventory: London: 1993-: 87).



Listing NGR: TL3238112653

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Sources

Books and journals
Forrester, H, Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware, (1964), 17-18
Smith, J T, English Houses 1200-1800 The Hertfordshire Evidence, (1994), 160 162
Smith, J T, Hertfordshire Houses Selective Inventory, (1993), 87

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