Description

HERTFORD

TL3112NE NORTH ROAD
817-1/8/129 (North side)
12/04/73 No.22
Sele House including front railings

GV II

House, originally miller's house for Sele Mill, now flats.
Late C18 with C19 alterations and extensions. Stuccoed
brickwork below hipped Welsh slated roofs with bracketed eaves
cornice, and stuccoed chimneystacks.
EXTERIOR: 2 and 3 storeys with long flat-roofed late C19 rear
(west) extension. First floor facing North Road has 2-storey
mid C19 canted bay window at left, with plain glazed sash
windows. Plaster spandrel and moulded cornice below lead flat
roof. Similar window in oriel form at right, above ground
floor porch with Tuscan Doric columns, with panelled responds,
and frieze and modillion cornice above. Flush-panelled door.
Return (east) elevation to the mill site has irregular
fenestration, large rear north wing has 2 canted oriel bays on
first floor, 2 squat 9-pane sash windows on second floor, and
semicircular headed doorway with fanlight at left. Carved bay
window at right.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: cast-iron railings along frontage, with
gate, spearhead and arrowhead balusters, posts with urn
finials.
HISTORICAL NOTE: until 1890 when it was destroyed by fire Sele
Mill adjoined the house on the right (north). The mill was
recorded in the Domesday Book. At the end of C15 John Tate
established the first paper mill in England under Henry VII's
patronage, with 'De Proprietatibus Rerum' of 1496 by
Bartholomaeus Anglicus being the first book to be printed on
English paper: Tate's watermark was a five pointed star or
daisy in a double circle.
(Green L: Hertford's Past in pictures: Ware: 1993-: 44; 80-1;
The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Hertfordshire:
Harmondsworth: 1977-: 193).

Listing NGR: TL3191812713

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559120

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Recommended Books

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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)