Sele House Including Front Railings
SELE HOUSE INCLUDING FRONT RAILINGS, 22, NORTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268844
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Sele House Including Front Railings
- Statutory Address:
- SELE HOUSE INCLUDING FRONT RAILINGS, 22, NORTH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268844
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Sele House Including Front Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- SELE HOUSE INCLUDING FRONT RAILINGS, 22, NORTH ROAD
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:
- SELE HOUSE INCLUDING FRONT RAILINGS, 22, NORTH ROAD
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 31918 12713
Details
HERTFORD
TL3112NE NORTH ROAD
817-1/8/129 (North side)
12/04/73 No.22
Sele House including front railings
GV II
House, originally miller's house for Sele Mill, now flats.
Late C18 with C19 alterations and extensions. Stuccoed
brickwork below hipped Welsh slated roofs with bracketed eaves
cornice, and stuccoed chimneystacks.
EXTERIOR: 2 and 3 storeys with long flat-roofed late C19 rear
(west) extension. First floor facing North Road has 2-storey
mid C19 canted bay window at left, with plain glazed sash
windows. Plaster spandrel and moulded cornice below lead flat
roof. Similar window in oriel form at right, above ground
floor porch with Tuscan Doric columns, with panelled responds,
and frieze and modillion cornice above. Flush-panelled door.
Return (east) elevation to the mill site has irregular
fenestration, large rear north wing has 2 canted oriel bays on
first floor, 2 squat 9-pane sash windows on second floor, and
semicircular headed doorway with fanlight at left. Carved bay
window at right.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: cast-iron railings along frontage, with
gate, spearhead and arrowhead balusters, posts with urn
finials.
HISTORICAL NOTE: until 1890 when it was destroyed by fire Sele
Mill adjoined the house on the right (north). The mill was
recorded in the Domesday Book. At the end of C15 John Tate
established the first paper mill in England under Henry VII's
patronage, with 'De Proprietatibus Rerum' of 1496 by
Bartholomaeus Anglicus being the first book to be printed on
English paper: Tate's watermark was a five pointed star or
daisy in a double circle.
(Green L: Hertford's Past in pictures: Ware: 1993-: 44; 80-1;
The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Hertfordshire:
Harmondsworth: 1977-: 193).
Listing NGR: TL3191812713
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461391
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 193
Green, L, Hertfords Past in Pictures, (1993), 44,80-81
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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