3, St Andrew Street

HERTFORD

TL3212NW ST ANDREW STREET 817-1/16/201 (South side) 25/09/72 No.3

GV II

Hall house, now restaurant with offices over. Front range c1500, with late C16 south wing, C18 and C19 alterations, restored 1976. Timber-framed and plastered, with clay tile roof, yellow brick chimney on ridge line on left, second stack at right against rear wall of front range. Built as single ended Wealden house with 2-bay front, the right (west) bay forming the hall, 3 bay rear 2-storey outshut added late C16, when hall floored. EXTERIOR: first floor has 2 flush-set sash windows, 12 pane and 16 pane; ground floor has recessed entry at left, with restored C19 shopfront extending across remainder of front concealing jettied first floor. C20 hardwood framed plate glass windows, recessed double leaf three quarter glazed doors, green tile stallriser, pilaster surround with deep fascia and cornice flanked by moulded consoles. Long 2-storey rear outshut, with single storey C20 pantile-roofed outshut beyond. INTERIOR: exposed beams of inserted floor in ground floor restaurant, access to first floor from alley at side leading past inserted fireplace in service bay. First floor has exposed studwork to partition separating solar from upper part of hall; downward curved bracing, cut for insertion of central door following insertion of floor, with cut plate which housed studs of recessed first floor (upper wall of hall). Crown post roof structure above, fore and aft bracing to collar purlin, with inserted stack hard alongside, halved and pegged rafters and collars, lack of smoke blackening suggesting unheated hall and solar. 3 bay rear outshut now open on first floor, above restaurant kitchens on ground floor. Partly braced tie beams, 3- and 4-light diamond mullion windows with shutter grooves. Fireplace at far south-west corner of outshut removed during 1976 alterations. (Smith JT: English Houses 1200-1800: The Hertfordshire Evidence: London: 1992-: 148; Smith JT: Hertfordshire Houses: Selective Inventory: London: 1993-: 87).

Listing NGR: TL3242912650