1, BALDOCK STREET
1, BALDOCK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217395
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 1, BALDOCK STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 1, BALDOCK STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217395
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 1, BALDOCK STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, BALDOCK STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 1, BALDOCK STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ware
- National Grid Reference:
- TL3560114410
Details
TL3514SE
829-1/9/14
14/03/74
WARE TOWN
BALDOCK STREET
(West side)
No.1
GV
II
House, now commercial premises, with ground floor shop. C16
with early C19 refronting, and shopfront. Timber-framed, with
yellow stock brick, Flemish bond, with parapet projecting over
dentil course, and steeply pitched old tiled roofs with one
box dormer to front, and one facing Priory Street. Tall brick
chimney shared with No.3 Baldock Street (qv).
2 storeys and attics. 2 sash windows with glazing bars under
flat rubbed arches, central sash window beneath lintel; 1 sash
window to Priory Street. C19 shopfront at left turns corner to
Priory Street, with corner entrance, and double leaf glazed
doors, with lower reeded panels. Reeded pilasters flank
entrance ends of display windows on Baldock Street and Priory
Street frontages. Arcaded plate glass windows, with pierced
vent above. 5 panel door, with top 3 panels glazed, in narrow
architrave surround, with cut bracketed cornice hood.
Carriageway of No.1 Priory Street to left (qv) shows exposed
timber studs and curved bracing of left hand end wall.
The courtyard plan with No.1 Priory Street, and Nos 3 and 5
Baldock Street (qv) may relate to an historic inn site, and it
is thought that The Griffin Inn occupied the land during the
mid C17.
(Hunt EM: The History of Ware: Hertford: 1986-1946: 100).
Listing NGR: TL3560114410
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412250
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hunt, E M, The History of Ware 1986-1946, (1986), 100
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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