18, HIGH STREET

18, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1217422
Date first listed:
01-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:
18, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
18, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1217422
Date first listed:
01-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:
18, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:
18, HIGH 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
18, HIGH 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 35949 14249

Details

WARE TOWN

TL3514SE HIGH STREET 829-1/9/84 (North side) 01/11/72 No.18

GV II

House, now ground floor shop with offices above, (upper rooms of No.20 (qv), now take access from No.18). C18, with C19 front, reconstructed internally in 1972. Red brick front, with yellow brick quoins, and moulded red brick dentil cornice, Welsh slated roof with red ridge tiles behind parapet. 4 plain glazed sash windows, in reveals under red rubbed arches on first floor, 4 sash windows with glazing bars on second floor. Ground floor shopfront contained by brick pilasters at either side surmounted by coarsely detailed Tuscan capitals, and bold overhanging paired consoles, with frieze and pediments. C19 shopfront with stucco stallriser, plate glass windows in moulded timber frames, and twin cast-iron columns, with simplified Corinthian capitals, either side of canted recessed entrance, with glazed door. Fascia above with modern timber boarding and recessed void for former blind box. Modern single storey extension, with pantiled roof, at rear.

Listing NGR: TL3595514251

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
412321
Legacy System:
LBS

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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