12, HIGH STREET

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WARE TOWN

TL3514SE HIGH STREET 829-1/9/81 (North side) 01/11/72 No.12

GV II

Formerly known as: Nos.8, 10 AND 12 HIGH STREET. Former maltsters house with adjoining yard and malt house, became shop late C19, and shopfront inserted on ground floor. Mid C18, altered C19, altered and extended 1920s. Dark red brick with orange dressings laid to Flemish Bond. Painted bands at first floor level, cill level, moulded cornice above first floor window heads, moulded band above second floor window heads. Hipped old tiled roof behind parapet. EXTERIOR: front range 3 storeys. First and second floors, 4 sash windows with glazing bars flush-set with exposed boxes, under rubbed flat arches. On ground floor at left is C18 six panelled front door in pilaster surround, probably removed from the side entrance in 1920s. Present shopfront dates from 1920s, when Enfield Highway Co-operative Society greatly extended the premises at right (eastwards) along Star Street, as single storey range, building across yard, creating a series of retail units. Narrow tiled stallrisers, bronze cilled and mullioned, plate glass windows, wooden paned upper lights with ornamental stained glass, with pattern of swags and pendants. Deep fascia and blind box. Rear outshoot mid C18, dark red brick laid to Flemish Bond, old tiled roof behind parapet with one hipped dormer, with casement window and moulded cornice, one flat-roofed modern dormer with modern casement windows, slablike brick chimneystack rises from parapet at rear. 2 storeys, first floor 3 sash windows with glazing bars under rubbed flat arches with 2 C20 windows under reduced opening, and blank recess, ground floor partly demolished in 1920s when shop opened out. Rear range late C17, dark red brick, old tiled roof with eaves course of Welsh slate, 2 dormers with casements, moulded cornice and hipped tiled roofs, slablike brick chimneystack forming parapet to roof at right hand rear gable, left hand gable parapeted and stucco covered. 2 storeys and attics. Ground floor and first floor, 4 bays, 3 mullion and transom windows, in shallow reveals, with C19 wooden casements, ground floor windows under segmental arches: first floor left hand window retains original leaded-light glazing, with exception of lower left light, which has C19 casement. Second bay from left has archaic Venetian landing window, in round arched recess, with heavy pegged frames and leaded lights. INTERIOR of front of building gutted and floor lowered early 1920s. West ground floor of rear wing retains simple wooden dado with recessed panels. First floor front rooms altered 1920s with insertion of concrete stair from side entrance on ground floor. Landing in rear outshoot contains wooden dog-leg stair, mid C18, which originally ran from ground floor. Open string construction, newels with fluted columns, with Tuscan capitals, and moulded caps, foliated tread ends, turned balusters with pillar and urn, surmounted by iron twists, ramped moulded handrails. Dado with moulded rail, fielded and raised panels with quadrant moulding. First floor landing part panelled above dado, dentil frieze and moulded cornice. Long C18 window on half landing with sashes with heavy quadrant glazing bars and panelled shutters in reveals. Front right hand attic has simple architrave fire surround with moulded support to mantelshelf. Simple 2 panel doors to closets, left and right. Rear wing has simple dog-leg newel stair, with turned balusters and moulded handrail, running from ground floor to attics. First floor rooms have simple dado with moulded rail. In C18 the house was the home of the Burr family, prominent Quaker maltsters, and the Friends Meeting House (demolished 1889) was directly behind, with its main entrance from Kibes Lane. (Edwards E and Perman D: Ware's Past In Pictures: Ware: 1991-: 89; Perman D: Ware UD. List of buildings of special arch or historic interest: 1993-: 40; Ware Tithe Map: 1845-; Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851-).

Listing NGR: TL3597514246

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Edwards, , Perman, , Wares Past in Pictures, (1991), 89

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