23, BALDOCK STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1217402
Date first listed:: 08-May-1950
List Entry Name:: 23, BALDOCK STREET
Statutory Address:: 23, BALDOCK STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1217402
Date first listed:: 08-May-1950
List Entry Name:: 23, BALDOCK STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 23, 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:: 23, 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 35567 14470

Details

WARE TOWN

TL3514SE BALDOCK STREET 829-1/9/28 (West side) 08/05/50 No.23

GV II

House, later inn, house, and now offices. C16 and C17 refaced C18. Timber-framed, with masonry lined stucco facing. Old tiled roof with moulded eaves cornice. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 sash windows with glazing bars, slightly set back with concealed boxes, on first floor; 3 sash windows with glazing bars, nearly flush-set, with exposed boxes and moulded architraves on ground floor. Entrance door to right between right hand pair of windows. 6 fielded panelled door, with glazed upper panels, in architrave surround with flat hood on cut brackets. At left is carriageway, with moulded surround and elliptical arch, with carved spandrels with foliage. Twin plank doors, with wicket door in right hand leaf. At rear is long outshoot, timber-framed, with plastered walls, and old tiled roof, 2 storeys with attics. Gabled jetty beneath attic, supported on cut consoles facing south. INTERIOR: moulded beams are found in the central ground floor room, and one C18 moulded coving to the left hand room. The inconsistent disposition of the mouldings indicates that the floor plan has been altered. The stair at the rear of the frontage block was not directly accessible from the yard as with most inns. The kitchen appears to have been in the west wing. Recorded as a house in 1622, and as The Black Swan Inn in 1654. (Edwards E and Perman D: Ware's Past In Pictures: Ware: 1991-: 119; Hunt EM: The History of Ware: Hertford: 1986-1946: 67, 97; Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England): An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire: London: 1910-: 230; Smith JT: Hertfordshire Houses. Selective Inventory: London: 1993-: 194; Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-; The Victoria History of the County of Hertford : III: London: 1912-: 381; Forrester H: Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware: Hitchin: 1964-: 39).

Listing NGR: TL3556714470

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Legacy System number:: 412264
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912), 381
Edwards, , Perman, , Wares Past in Pictures, (1991), 119
Forrester, H , Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware, (1964), 39
Hunt, E M, The History of Ware 1986-1946, (1986), 67
Hunt, E M, The History of Ware 1986-1946, (1986), 97
Smith, J T, Hertfordshire Houses Selective Inventory, (1993), 194
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)

Legal

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