27, St Andrew Street

HERTFORD

TL3212NW ST ANDREW STREET 817-1/16/211 (South side) 12/04/73 No.27

GV II

House, now shop. Late C16/early C17, with earlier, C15 structure at rear. Timber-framed and plastered, old tile roofs, with red brick chimneystack on outshoot. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, front elevation has flush-set 3 light small-paned wood casement on first floor and ground floor has early C19 cornice with flat modillion soffit and dentil course above fascia, which cants outwards at right and has splayed corner at left, with entrance door from side passage. C20 glazed door and oriel shop window carried on brackets above yellow brick riser. Scattered fenestration of small paned wood casement windows on long elevation to left had (east) side passage, including 2 early C20 canted oriel bays on first floor. INTERIOR: suggests this building was probably a single bay of a longer structure to west, demolished c1840 for construction of Nos 29 & 31 (qv). Ground and first floors now opened out to continuous display areas, long jowled posts, beams and some bracing visible to tie beam of present party wall to No.29. Roof has halved and pegged rafters and side purlins. Long rear outshoot contains earlier C15 framed structure, much altered, most evident at first-floor level. (Green L: Hertford's Past in pictures: Ware: 1993-: 42).

Listing NGR: TL3236812620