20 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:: 20 20A, BALDOCK STREET
Statutory Address:: 20 20A, BALDOCK STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1217401
Date first listed:: 14-Mar-1974
List Entry Name:: 20 20A, BALDOCK STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 20 20A, BALDOCK STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 20 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:: TL 35604 14539

Details

WARE TOWN

TL3514NE BALDOCK STREET 829-1/7/26 (East side) 14/03/74 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: TL3560414539

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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, Hertfordshire Houses Selective Inventory, (1993), 194
Smith, J T, English Houses 1200-1800 The Hertfordshire Evidence, (1992), 149
Smith, J T, English Houses 1200-1800 The Hertfordshire Evidence, (1992), 154

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.