2, St Andrew Street

House, now shop with dental surgery above, in Hertford. Originally 17th century but comprehensively rebuilt in the early to mid 18th century, then altered and given a new shopfront in the late 19th century. The building is constructed of dark red brick in Flemish bond with pale orange dressings. The roof is tiled but concealed behind a parapet. A square red brick chimneystack sits on the ridge, positioned right of centre.

The plan resembles a three-cell lobby entry type. The main front comprises seven bays, with two narrow bays on each side flanking a central three-bay unit which projects forward, as do pilasters at each end of the facade.

The exterior has three storeys and basement. The first floor features slightly recessed eight-pane sash windows beneath rubbed brick segmental arches with triple keystones at the sides, and three twelve-pane sash windows with quintuple keystones in the central bays, arranged in a 2:3:2 spacing, with a blank recess on the right centre. The second floor has squatter eight- and twelve-pane sashes under segmental arches without keystones, with blank recesses in bays one, three, five and seven. An elaborate brick cornice with dentils and moulded bands runs along the top.

The ground floor has a doorway at the left comprising an eight-fielded panelled door set above three stone steps, recessed in panelled reveals with a shallow segmental head. The doorcase features rusticated Tuscan Doric pilasters, an entablature with moulded keyblock, triglyph frieze and deep cornice. An eight-pane sash window stands to the right of the doorcase.

The five right-hand bays were reconstructed with a late 19th-century shopfront in Queen Anne revival style. This has five equal openings out of alignment with the bays above, with panelled pilasters featuring moulded brick sunflowers alternating with checkerboards bearing interlaced initials "WS" denoting Wigginton and Son. Recessed toplights alternate with pairs of recessed three-quarter glazed doors, each with a bolection mould around the lower panel and rectangular plain glazed fanlights, all within brick reveals with red rubbed brick flat arches featuring projecting keyblocks with raised modelled sunflowers. Brick stallrisers beneath the windows have cast-iron filigree grilles to the basement, with three stone steps to the doorways. An oxblood encaustic tiled fascia displays a square block of foliated ornament and "Wigginton and Son" in orange block capitals within an orange margin band, with the fascia ends terminating in twin moulded red sandstone console brackets and a roll moulded cornice beneath the first-floor window sills.

The return elevation to the east on Old Cross is stuccoed and blank on the first and second floors, with a plat band at first-floor level and twin bands just below cornice level. The ground floor has a circa 1840 shopfront consisting of a closed shop window with large, nearly square panes in a moulded architrave surround, stucco pilasters on plinths with torus bases, and elaborate moulded stucco foliated consoles flanking a panelled fascia with bold moulded cornice. The stucco stallriser includes a central basement hatch with twin wrought-iron gates featuring ogee tracery and quatrefoil band.

The interior at ground floor level has been opened out as a large shop unit. Around the west and north sides runs a bold early to mid 18th-century double cyma and torus moulded wood cornice, with cast-iron columns in the centre supporting the chimneystack above. A staircase leads from the hall at the left in an L-plan, with the lower flight having an open string with bracketed treads and iron twist balusters, representing a 19th-century reworking following the creation of the shop to the east. Upper flights continue to the second floor in close string construction with iron twist and column on bobbin balusters, ramped moulded handrail and dado. First-floor rooms retain some moulded wood cornices, though the corridor is a later creation. A back stair against the chimneystack gives evidence for the original lobby entry plan. A 19th-century north wing blocks the landing window of the main west stair.