5, Old Cross

HERTFORD

TL3212NW OLD CROSS 817-1/16/138 (South side) 16/02/72 No.5

GV II

Shop, with residence above. C17, with C18 and C19 alterations. Timber-framed and plastered, with brick infill at right in carriageway of No.1 St Andrew Street (qv), weatherboarded rear outshoot, old tiled roof with wood eaves cornice. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, with attics to front block. First floor has single 1 flush set sash window with glazing bars and architrave surround. Ground floor has full width mid/late C19 shopfront underbuilding jetty. Large plate glass display window, with panelled wood stallriser, and multi-light fanlight. Recessed, glazed door at left, with canted return to shop window. Pilasters left and right, with carved consoles, and fascia board with moulded surround planted on jettied first floor. Single casement dormer. Yellow brick chimney with oversailing course and terracotta pot. Rear slope of roof and outshoot finished with corrugated asbestos. INTERIOR: ground floor partly opened out originally functioned as shop, and rear living room, the latter with a corner fireplace. To the rear is a C19 outshoot with scullery and wash house, with lofts above. First floor has 2 rooms, each with corner fireplaces, and elm plank floors. Attic with exposed purlins and ceiled upper roof, narrow bay with stair, with exposed, whitewashed fan pargeting. Cellar with red brick walls and blue brick floor. (Smith JT: English Houses 1200-1800: The Hertfordshire Evidence: London: 1992-: 162; Smith JT: Hertfordshire Houses: Selective Inventory: London: 1993-: 85-6).

Listing NGR: TL3245112650