Sele House Including Front Railings

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