3, BALDOCK STREET
3, BALDOCK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217396
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 3, BALDOCK STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 3, BALDOCK STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217396
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 3, BALDOCK STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3, 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:
- 3, 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:
- TL3559514416
Details
TL3514SE
829-1/9/16
14/03/74
WARE TOWN
BALDOCK STREET
(West side)
No.3
GV
II
House, now offices. C17 and C18, with C19 and C20 alterations.
Timber-framed, plastered, with modillioned eaves cornice (part
boxed out to form gutter) and old tiled roofs of 2 heights,
left hand corresponding with structure of third bay of No.1
adjoining to the left (qv), and remainder corresponding with
No.5 adjoining to right (qv). Cruciform narrow-brick
chimneystack at right, set diagonally above base with moulded
cornice and offsets also serves No.5. 2 storeys, with attic at
left. 2 first floor flush-set sashes with glazing bars, ground
floor has 1970s single and triple light sashes with glazing
bars, and modern hardwood 6 panel entrance door in slim
surround at left, all replacing C19 shopfront.
INTERIOR: retains some C18 panelling and a bold moulded
cornice on first floor front right hand room. Together with
No.1 Priory Street (qv), and Nos 1 and 5 Baldock Street
possibly formed the site of The Griffin Inn in mid C17.
(Hunt EM: The History of Ware: Hertford: 1986-1946: 100;
Perman D: Ware UD. List of buildings of special arch or
historic interest: 1993-: 4; Forrester H: Timber Framed
Buildings in Hertford and Ware: Hitchin: 1964-: 49).
Listing NGR: TL3559514416
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412252
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hunt, E M, The History of Ware 1986-1946, (1986), 100
Forrester, H, Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware, (1964), 49
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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