3 East Street
3, East Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217416
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 3 East Street
- Statutory Address:
- 3, East Street
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217416
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 3 East Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3, East 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, East 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 35918 14297
Details
TL3514SE
829-1/9/74
WARE TOWN
EAST STREET (north side)
No.3
08/05/50
GV
II
House, now with shop on ground floor. C17 or earlier, refronted late C17 or early C18. Brick front, with dark red bricks and cherry red dressings, wood modillioned eaves cornice, old tiled roof, formerly with two gabled dormers, removed in 1970s.
EXTERIOR: two storeys and attics. First floor has six light flush set mullion and transom casement window with small panes. At right are twin brick recesses flanking central semicircular headed stucco niche, with moulded cill, Tuscan pilasters and moulded impost band. The niche contained c1704 to 1840 the statue of a Bluecoat Boy, subsequently removed to Hertford and now displayed in Place House (qv). A new statue, by Angela Godfrey, was commissioned by the Ware Society, and installed in the niche in 1986. Ground floor has C19 shopfront at left. Timber pilasters left hand partly cut back with insertion of modern brick stallriser. Sash window divided in three panes by glazing bars extends across two thirds of width of frontage. Modern glazed door at right in C19 surround. C19 fascia covered by modern panel. Carriageway at right, with timber reveals and bressumer, and exposed beams within.
At the rear, the building is plastered and pebbledashed, with a moulded wood eaves cornice. There is a pantiled and old tiled roofed single storey lean-to on the right of the carriageway.
The building was used by Christ's Hospital as a nurse's cottage after they acquired Place House in 1685, and the rear elevation accords with the materials and details of the Bluecoat Yard cottages (qv).
Listing NGR: TL3591814297
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412309
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
More about Place House and Bluecoat Yard, (1988)
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912), 381
Forrester, H, Timber Framed Buildings in Hertford and Ware, (1964), 48
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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