23, BALDOCK STREET
23, BALDOCK STREET
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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:
- TL3557514468
Details
TL3514SE
829-1/9/28
08/05/50
WARE TOWN
BALDOCK STREET
(West side)
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: TL3557514468
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412264
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Edwards, , Perman, , Wares Past in Pictures, (1991), 119
Hunt, E M, The History of Ware 1986-1946, (1986), 67
Hunt, E M, The History of Ware 1986-1946, (1986), 97
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912), 381
Forrester, H, Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware, (1964), 39
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.
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