NUMBERS 20 AND 20A BALDOCK STREET
20 AND 20A, BALDOCK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217401
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- NUMBERS 20 AND 20A BALDOCK STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 20 AND 20A, BALDOCK STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217401
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- NUMBERS 20 AND 20A BALDOCK STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 20 AND 20A, 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:
- 20 AND 20A, 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:
- TL3560414541
Details
TL3514NE
829-1/7/26
14/03/74
WARE TOWN
BALDOCK STREET
(East side)
Nos.20 AND 20A
GV
II
Shown as No.22 on OS map.
House, now ground floor shops with offices above. C15 or C16,
heightened in C17, with C18, C19 and C20 alterations.
Timber-framed, stucco front. Modern sandfaced tiled roof, red
brick chimneystack with projecting band, dentils and
oversailing courses shared with No 22 (qv).
EXTERIOR: first floor has 2 early C19 sash windows, different
sizes, flush set, with glazing bars, exposed boxes and
architrave surrounds. Deep overhanging eaves cornice, with
plain soffit, but moulding at junction with wall. Ground floor
has C19 shopfronts, both subsequently altered, that on the
right having a cornice and blind box supported on carved
consoles. South gable wall rendered above, pebbledashed below.
Rear gabled outshoots to east C17, timber-framed and
pebbledashed with old tiled roofs. Building identified by RCHM
as originally a late-medieval single storey house, with a
storeyed south bay and an open-hall north bay, with flush
walls throughout. In C17 roof raised to give 2 storeys, and
roof reconstructed. The original roof had clasped purlins and
windbracing, the evidence for the latter is shown by mortice
voids in the principal rafters visible in the partition
between the 2 principal first floor rooms.
(Smith JT: English Houses 1200-1800. The Hertfordshire
Evidence: London: 1992-: 149, 154, 159; Smith JT:
Hertfordshire Houses. Selective Inventory: London: 1993-:
194).
Listing NGR: TL3560414541
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412262
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Smith, J T, English Houses 1200-1800 The Hertfordshire Evidence, (1992), 159
Smith, J T, English Houses 1200-1800 The Hertfordshire Evidence, (1992), 149
Smith, J T, English Houses 1200-1800 The Hertfordshire Evidence, (1992), 154
Smith, J T, Hertfordshire Houses Selective Inventory, (1993), 194
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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