Description

HERTFORD

TL3212NW ST ANDREW STREET
817-1/16/203 (South side)
12/04/73 Nos.5-11 (Odd)

GV II

Terrace of 4 houses, now with shop, surgery and flats.
Early-mid C19. Grey-brown stock brick, Flemish Bond, stucco
bands, sills and moulded eaves fascia and cornice. Hipped
Welsh slated roofs, 4 multi-flue stock brick chimneys with
band, oversailing course and orange clay pots.
EXTERIOR: 9 bay facade with breaks and projections in ratio
1:1:2:1:2:1:1. Three storeys. First floor recessed 12-pane
sashes under rubbed flat arches with stucco sills to each bay
(blank recesses in outer left and right bays). Second floor
recessed 6-pane sashes, with equivalent blank recesses. Ground
floor has doorways in end bays, 4 panels, with 2 lower flush
panels, with traceried semicircular fanlights, reeded
surrounds and arched reveals and painted stucco bands above
similar doors to inner pair, Nos 7 & 9 from central
carriageway which has a segmental rubbed brick arch above, and
painted stucco impost bands. 12-pane sashes to other bays with
exception of No.11 which has a C20 shop window within C19
surround.
Rear elevation has 5 sash windows to first and second floors,
with low segmental arches ground floor 6 scattered windows and
2 doors (to Nos 5 & 7).
Exterior of No.11 has mid C19 cast-iron railing and gates on
Portland stone curb, with spear uprights, and gate with
trellis cross piece and arrow heads below.
INTERIOR: upper floors not inspected; ground floors opened out
and altered.
HISTORICAL NOTE: No.11 has a plaque inscribed to Alfred
Russell Wallace (1823-1913), Naturalist, Author and Scientist,
who lived here. Educated at Hertford Grammar School, Wallace
spent 4 years in the Amazon basin, then a further 8 in
South-East Asia. He was in touch with Darwin and Huxley, but
independently formulated the concept of 'natural selection'.
(Green L: Hertford's Past in pictures: Ware: 1993-: 163;
Hertfordshire Countryside: Lea J: Schooldays of a famous
scientist: Letchworth: 1946-1952: 52-3).

Listing NGR: TL3241612644

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559053

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